Approaching the Unfamiliar: How the Religious Ways of Aboriginal Peoples Are Understood in Delgamuukw v. British Columbia (1997)

• Main Author: Forbes, Lauren L.
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa 2012
• Subjects: Religion; Spirituality; First Nations; Oral History; Land Claim; Religious Ways; Aboriginal Peoples; Canada; Delgamuukw v. British Columbia 1997; Supreme Court; Gitksan; Wet'suwet'en; Delgamuukw; British Columbia; Handle The
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.20381/ruor-6188; http://www.ruor.uottawa.ca/handle/10393/23495

This thesis will explore how the Supreme Court of Canada understands and frames the religious ways of the Gitksan and Wet’suwet’en First Nations peoples, in the case Delgamuukw v. British Columbia (1997). The case started as a land claims case but at the Supreme Court level it became about whether A...