Ktunaxa Nation v. British Columbia: A Historical and Critical Analysis of Canadian Aboriginal Law

• Main Author: Mendoza, Jennifer
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: UW Law Digital Commons 2020
• Subjects: Canadian Aboriginal Rights; Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms; Aboriginal Religious Freedom; Canadian Constitutional Law; Comparative and Foreign Law; Constitutional Law; Cultural Heritage Law; Indigenous; Indian; and Aboriginal Law; Law; Law and Society; Religion Law; Canada; British Columbia; First Nations
• Online Access: https://digitalcommons.law.uw.edu/wilj/vol29/iss3/12; https://digitalcommons.law.uw.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1849&context=wilj

Aboriginal law is a developing and emerging area of the law in Canada. In fact, Aboriginal rights were not constitutionally protected until the ratification of the Canadian Constitution in 1982. What followed was a series of precedent-setting cases that clarified what “rights” meant under Section 35...