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Justice and healing: Aboriginal peoples in Canada
The Journal of Human Justice, 1995
The volumes listed above represent the first four publications of Puritch's 'Aboriginal Issues Series.' In a Publisher's Note included in each book, Donald Puritch introduces himself, the goals and objectives of his publishing house, and his intended audience as follows: After two decades working with Aboriginal Peoples and issues as Director of the University of Saskatchewan Native Law Centre, a legal aid lawyer, an author, and a university lecturer, it is clear to me that there is a great need for well written and researched materials on Aboriginal issues. This series is intended to fill that gap and to help non-Aboriginal people gain an appreciation of Aboriginal aspirations.
Law & Social Inquiry
In 2014, the provincial government unveiled a new courthouse in Thunder Bay, Ontario, featuring a conference area designed to emulate an Anishinaabe roundhouse. The “Aboriginal Conference Settlement Suite” epitomizes efforts to support Indigenous justice within the criminal justice system. However, despite similar efforts in the past, the circumstances of Indigenous peoples in Canada have not improved. This ongoing commitment to legal solutions is emblematic of mainstream views of law as a problem-solving instrument. Notwithstanding awareness of its failings, law reformers remain dedicated to using law as a tool for social change. Employing a case study method focusing on the new courthouse, I challenge a prevailing wisdom that law reform outputs are manageable and in our control. I argue that similar to a courthouse, which is a concrete, physical structure as well as a symbol of justice, so too is the legal instrument both material and metaphorical, with concrete outcomes and symbo...
2017
This paper explores Canadian in/exclusion of Aboriginal groups to/from access to mainstream business resources and opportunities. The focus is one prominent non-governmental program, the CAPE Fund (an acronym for Canadian Aboriginal Prosperity and Entrepreneurship), designed to provide equity to Aboriginal businesses. We critically analyze the " promises " of entrepreneurship through CAPE Fund using TribalCrit, a framework rooted in critical race theory and post-colonialism. Do programs like CAPE Fund promote Aboriginal entrepreneurship that liberates " Others " on their own terms? Or are they " civilizing missions " that attempt to impose Eurocentric practices and values? We explore these issues in the paper and conclude with recommendations for enhancing the possibility of self-determination of Aboriginal peoples within the postcolonial ideal.
2014
A quarter of a millennium later it is our judgment that that relationship has often not been carried out in the hopeful and respectful spirit envisaged by the Royal Proclamation. The result has been that the status of many Aboriginal people in Canada remains a stain on the national conscience. But it is also the case that we face a new set of circumstances in Aboriginal/non-Aboriginal relations. Indigenous peoples in Canada have, as a result of decades of political, legal, and constitutional activism, acquired unprecedented power and authority. Nowhere is this truer than in the area of natural resources. This emerging authority coincides with the rise of the demand for Canadian natural resources, a demand driven by the increasing integration of the developing world with the global economy, including the massive urbanisation of many developing countries. Their demand for natural resources to fuel their rise is creating unprecedented economic opportunities for countries like Canada th...