Indian Governments and the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms

• Main Authors: Long, J. Anthony, Chiste, Katherine Beaty
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: eScholarship, University of California 1994
• Subjects: spirit dancing; community's responsibility; individual members; cultural tradition; aboriginal rights; Canadian law; supremacy of the individual; British Columbia; Canada; Indian; First Nations
• Online Access: https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5d13s486

In February 1992, a judge of the Supreme Court of the province of British Columbia ruled that the native ritual of spirit dancing is subject to Canadian law protecting individual rights and is not an aboriginal right under Section 35(1)of the Constitution Act, 1982. The decision emerged from a civil...