Articles about First Nations
“People came to this part of the world believing that they were superior and they were better.”
Read More →The famous American commentator Walter Lippmann once summed up public opinion as “the pictures in our heads.”
Read More →There was a short news item last week, announcing that the federal government had decided unilaterally that Attawapiskat First Nation owed it $1.8-million dollars for housing “overpayment” and would have …
Read More →When chief justice Marshall of the United States Supreme Court presided over a majority decision insisting that only the national government, and not the state of Georgia, could make decisions …
Read More →How is renewal of the historic treaties critical to Canada’s future? Bob Rae, a senior partner at OKT, asked this question to a packed room at the University of Regina …
Read More →It is an exciting time to be working on Aboriginal issues in Canada—as exciting as any time as I can remember, and I am no spring chicken.
Read More →The Declaration for a New Partnership is an effort to establish a relationship based on respect and equality between and among Canadians and Aboriginal peoples.
Read More →This week on Face-to-Face APTN anchor Michael Hutchinson speaks with Bob Rae as the Negotiator with the Matawa Tribal Council representing communities in the midst of the planned Ring of Fire development in Northern …
Read More →It’s an exciting time to be a lawyer, and an even more exciting time to be practising aboriginal law.
Read More →Some of the reactions to the Supreme Court’s decision in the Tsilhqot’in First Nation case, which requires pipeline projects and similar developments to seek aboriginal approval, are so over the …
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