Ethnohistorical geography and aboriginal rights litigation in Canada: memoir of an expert witness

• Published in: Canadian Geographies / Géographies canadiennes
• Main Author: Ray, Arthur J.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 2011
• Subjects: British Columbia; Canada; Regina; First Nations
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1541-0064.2011.00363.x; https://api.wiley.com/onlinelibrary/tdm/v1/articles/10.1111%2Fj.1541-0064.2011.00363.x; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/j.1541-0064.2011.00363.x

Since the early 1950s, evidence from ethnohistorical geography has played an important role in aboriginal rights claims and litigation in North America. I became involved in Canadian aboriginal and treaty rights litigation over 35 years ago. My participation has included several landmark cases: Regi...