First Peoples Law
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#ICYMI This week's edition @ First Peoples Law includes water rights, Treaty rights, consultation, coal, pipelines, place names, Indigenous law and more @ https://buff.ly/3gUW7eM #IndigenousRights #cdnpoli

This week's edition @ First Peoples Law includes water rights, Treaty rights, consultation, coal, pipelines, place names, Indigenous law and more @ https://bit.ly/3gQIEEZ #IndigenousRights #cdnpoli

This week's edition @ First Peoples Law includes UNDRIP, elections, land defence, Treaty rights, policing, Gladue reports, colonizer statues and more! Sign up for our mailing list @ https://buff.ly/31Yo8sX and get your first copy tomorrow! #IndigenousRights #cdnpoli

"Yes, we're divided by territory, a boundary, a border and a river, but the truth is we've been saying to the world that we've always been one people." https://buff.ly/3gZ4xSi #IndigenousRights #cdnpoli #nbpoli

First Peoples Law is a law firm dedicated to defending and advancing the rights of Indigenous Peoples in Canada. We work closely with First Nations to defend their Aboriginal title, rights and Treaty rights, uphold their Indigenous laws and governance and ensure economic prosperity for their members. Chat with us @ https://buff.ly/2VQ7rij + join our mailing list @ https://buff.ly/3hzZG6K for your latest news + analysis of Indigenous rights! Twitter @ https://buff.ly/2QbyanK + LinkedIn @ https://buff.ly/2VDCXgP #IndigenousRights #cdnpoli

Advocacy is not restricted to the courtroom. Our writing seeks to explain the legal and historical basis for our clients' Indigenous rights. Check out our publications @ https://bit.ly/2KEPjo8 #IndigenousRights #cdnpoli

So now not only are they hindering me from pursuing a moderate livelihood, which has been affirmed in the Donald Marshall case but they’re preventing me from fishing in general because they refuse to give my traps back." https://buff.ly/3mqQA0x #TreatyRights #cdnpoli #nspoli

This is something that we’ve been working on for so long, that it still doesn’t feel real to me that we’ve reached this huge milestone. https://buff.ly/39yuP9v #IndigenousRights #cdnpoli #bcpoli

Rather than spending $16.3 million on policing and seeing the criminalization of Indigenous people standing up for their rights, they could’ve sent two ministers down here from the feds, a couple from the province, and resolved this in a peaceful way eight months ago." https://buff.ly/31v4C7u #1492LandBackLane #IndigenousRights #cdnpoli #onpoli

"I use the word collaboration. That's a big word these days. That's what we're going to have to be doing with any future management with the park." https://buff.ly/3nhAVPI #cdnpoli #abpoli #ntpoli

The protocols in place do not protect our most vulnerable communities; and lastly, our Houses and Clans have a right and responsibility to make decisions about what happens on our territories. https://buff.ly/3hF1pJK #COVID19 #MMIWG2S #cdnpoli #bcpoli

First Peoples Law Indigenous Rights Year in Review Countdown! Last New Year's Eve the BC Supreme Court granted Coastal GasLink an injunction against Wet’suwet’en land defenders. To learn more about #WetsuwetenStrong in 2020, check out our ebook, podcast episode and reading list @ https://buff.ly/37YsQed #IndigenousRights #cdnpoli

First Peoples Law Indigenous Rights Year in Review Countdown! Check out our top case comments of 2020 spanning Treaty rights, Charter rights, cross-border rights and more @ https://buff.ly/3pvmJnR #cdnpoli #IndigenousRights #AboriginalLaw

First Peoples Law Indigenous Rights Year in Review Countdown! The defence of Mi'kmaq Treaty rights was front and centre across the country this year following our client Sipekne’katik First Nation's launch of its lobster fishery in September. Check out our new reading list to get informed @ https://buff.ly/3aNnHYo #AllEyesOnMikmaki #cdnpoli

When you have a negotiator that comes to your chiefs and says ‘here’s the package, here’s the deal, take it or leave it.’ I don’t see how that is negotiation. I don’t see how that begins to address a moderate livelihood. https://buff.ly/3feXzWA #TreatyRights #InherentRights #AllEyesOnMikmaki

First Peoples Law Indigenous Rights Year in Review Countdown! It was an honour to represent the Indigenous Bar Association in Canada and Grand Council Treaty #3 on their interventions in the Desautel and Southwind appeals at the Supreme Court of Canada this year. Check out our case summaries @ https://buff.ly/3jThwTO + video of our Desautel submissions @ https://buff.ly/2HowFP2 #IndigenousRights #cdnpoli

"How can Indigenous peoples be expected to put their lives in the hands of a system that has persistently failed them and more often than not been used against them?" https://buff.ly/38Y4LVZ #ICYMI Check out "Decolonizing Justice: Case Comment on R. v. Turtle" by First Peoples Law's Angela D'Elia Decembrini #IndigenousRights #cdnpoli

"This is not about devolving certain administrative powers to Indigenous governments. This is about breaking down legal regimes that have consistently failed Indigenous peoples and rebuilding them in accordance with Indigenous laws and priorities." #IndigenousRights #IndigenousLaw #cdnpoli

Check out this discussion of the Marshall decision, Mi'kmaq commercial fishing rights and policing in Mi'kma'ki featuring First Peoples Law's Angela D'Elia Decembrini @ https://buff.ly/35NUbxo #AllEyesOnMikmaki #SipeknekatikStrong #IndigenousRights #cdnpoli

DECOLONIZING JUSTICE: CASE COMMENT ON R. V. TURTLE By Angela D'Elia Decembrini In the face of oppression, racism and physical violence, Indigenous peoples across the country are demanding protection of their ancestral lands and recognition of their Aboriginal and Treaty rights....Continue reading

Check out Media Indigena's latest podcast episode on Mi'kmaq Treaty rights, Inherent rights, UNDRIP, the Marshall decision + more @ https://bit.ly/3cwatOo #cdnpoli #nspoli #IndigenousRights

"It should say to...Canadians that, you know, this is not the country you believe it is." Chief Moonias, Neskantaga First Nation @ https://bit.ly/2G5xcVQ #cdnpoli #onpoli

Governments and courts can no longer ignore the existence and insights of First Nations laws. Ignoring this reality fundamentally impairs reconciliation and the spirit and intent of treaties." https://buff.ly/340UHHw #IndigenousLaw #TreatyRights #SCC #CarbonPricing #cdnpoli

Get informed about the history + present of colonial policing in "Canada" with The Secret Life of Canada's latest episode "The Mounties Always Get Their Land Part II" @ https://bit.ly/2Hbjn93 #cdnpoli #podcasts

"When Haudenosaunee Land Defenders and our allies are required to defy injunctions to protect our territories, we are arrested, charged, and threatened with incarceration. It is still a crime to fight for our lands, but we are still fighting." https://buff.ly/3mzZebP #1492LandBackLane #cdnpoli #onpoli

Sign up for our mailing list @ https://buff.ly/34Axyh4 to get our latest blog post on decolonizing the justice system by Angela D'Elia Decembrini, out tomorrow morning! #IndigenousRights #cdnpoli

"Now is not the time for complacency and lackadaisical leadership in the face of rights suppression, and blatant racism, endangering the lives and livelihoods of Indigenous peoples in Canada. https://bit.ly/3hXrimv #IndigenousRights #TreatyRights #Mikmaki #cdnpoli #nspoli

"Is There a Future for the Duty to Consult?" by First Peoples Law's Bruce McIvor at today's PBLI conference "Developments in Aboriginal and Indigenous Law 2020" @ https://buff.ly/2Jew83k #UNDRIP #IndigenousRights #cdnpoli #lawtwitter

"In reality, these events are the result of the Crown’s prolonged and repeated failure to recognize and implement Mi’kmaq commercial fishing rights." #ICYMI Check out First Peoples Law's explainer on the Marshall decision and Mi'kmaq fishing rights by Angela D'Elia Decembrini @ https://buff.ly/3ny4Bcy #TreatyRights #InherentRights #AllEyesOnMikmaki #SipeknekatikStrong

"They made promises that they must uphold...Inaction equals broken promises." https://bit.ly/32WGiwY #IndigenousRights #cdnpoli #bcpoli

"It does appear however that none of them found this violent campaign against Indigenous people important enough to write about, which is ultimately what matters." https://buff.ly/37IB7n6 #AllEyesOnMikmaki #WetsuwetenStrong #cdnpoli

"What this spectacle of racialized violence shows is that the rule of law is a fiction and always has been." https://bit.ly/3iWtJah #IndigenousRights #TreatyRights #Mikmaki #cdnpoli #nspoli

The department of fisheries need to lay off and leave these Mi’kmaw people alone and let them practice their right. https://buff.ly/3muEDFP #AllEyesOnMikmaki #TreatyRights #InherentRights #cdnpoli #nspoli

"Twenty years later, the fight wages on. For treaty rights. Jurisdiction. The right to make a living." Get informed with Trina Roache's "Living Treaties" video series on the history and fight for Mikmaq fishing rights @ https://bit.ly/3iWBqgJ #TreatyRights #IndigenousRights #cdnpoli @APTN Investigates

"We have a right to feed our family. We have a right to take care of our children. We have a right to determine our own destiny." https://buff.ly/32T6uso #TreatyRights #IndigenousRights #peipoli #nspoli #cdnpoli

#ICYMI This week's edition @ First Peoples Law includes injunctions, Indigenous food sovereignty, climate change, colonial policing, environmental racism, cross-border rights, #1492LandBackLane, #SipeknekatikStrong and more @ https://buff.ly/2TlQiKi #IndigenousRights #cdnpoli

This week's edition @ First Peoples Law includes injunctions, Indigenous food sovereignty, climate change, colonial policing, environmental racism, cross-border rights, #1492LandBackLane, #SipeknekatikStrong and more @ https://buff.ly/2TlQiKi #IndigenousRights #cdnpoli

This is literally how Canadian law functions to steal land from Indigenous people...This is how land theft is made legal and the unfair mistreatment of Indigenous people is made legitimate in Canadian law. This is colonialism in action." https://buff.ly/3jshKkf #1492LandBackLane #cdnpoli #onpoli

We will continue to live on our territories as we always have and protect our territories for future generations. https://buff.ly/3iSgfMU #IndigenousRights #cdnpoli

"We're here to exercise a right and have the government uphold our treaties." https://bit.ly/3hSxU5Q #TreatyRights #InherentRights #cdnpoli #nspoli

People all across Turtle Island are starting to stand up and understand that we can’t tolerate this anymore. And we won’t..." https://buff.ly/31y8Ond #1492LandBackLane #IndigenousRights #cdnpoli #onpoli

Thoughts and prayers with our Mi'kmaw friends and clients standing tall and brave to defend their rights.

"The filing states that Six Nations and the Haudenosaunee Confederacy Chiefs Council have "legitimate grievances and concerns" to dispute title to the lands under reclamation." https://buff.ly/31xMIBq #1492LandBackLane #IndigenousRights #cdnpoli #onpoli

"Indigenous people across the country are regularly forced into court to defend their rights. Too often, the Crown responds to their claims with arguments which would, if accepted, narrow and defeat the promise of s. 35." https://buff.ly/31tNsYk #IndigenousRights #Desautel #cdnpoli

#ICYMI This week's edition @ First Peoples Law includes fishing rights, hunting rights, Charter rights, the duty to consult, UNDRIP and more @ https://buff.ly/33HaUBz #IndigenousRights #cdnpoli

This week's edition @ First Peoples Law includes fishing rights, hunting rights, Charter rights, the duty to consult, UNDRIP and more @ https://buff.ly/33HaUBz #IndigenousRights #cdnpoli

For your latest news + analysis of Indigenous rights, sign up for First Peoples Laws Aboriginal Law Report and get your first edition tomorrow @ https://buff.ly/31Yo8sX! #IndigenousRights #cdnpoli

"These actions represent a serious and critical threat not only to the Mikmaq Nations welfare and safety, but to the collective treaty rights and sovereignty of First Nations across the country." https://buff.ly/3hFURsM #TreatyRights #IndigenousRights #nspoli #cdnpoli

First Peoples Law is extremely excited for the opportunity to support scholarship recipients in their studies. We are confident they will make important contributions to defending the rights of Indigenous Peoples across Canada. Thanks to everyone who took the time to apply. Congratulations Taryn! https://buff.ly/32yDDZZ

#ICYMI Check out the Manitoba Eco-Network's webinar on environmental racism + the law featuring Chief Cook, Misipawistik Cree Nation and First Peoples Law's Bruce McIvor @ https://buff.ly/3iHR2oa #IndigenousRights #cdnpoli

"We hoped that the government would have worked with us to define a livelihood in the past, but it hasn't happened so we're taking steps to do it ourselves." https://buff.ly/35PrzFN #TreatyRights #cdnpoli #nspoli

In our 2nd episode @ First Peoples Law articled student Charlotte Rose joins the first annual recipients of our Indigenous Law Student Scholarship Tagalik Eccles and Saul Hazilhba Brown for a conversation on Indigenous rights, law, legal education and more @ https://buff.ly/2FQABqY

"It's a cultural genocide is how we look at it...We rely on the food source here." https://bit.ly/2FB2UKe #IndigenousRights #cdnpoli #qcpoli

Check out our new podcast episode "Reclaiming the Law: Indigenous Law Students in Conversation" on #IndigenousRights #Law #LegalEducation and more @ https://bit.ly/2RyRrxe!

Meet the Recipient of our 2020 Indigenous Law Student Scholarship! As part of our commitment to supporting the development of Indigenous lawyers, First Peoples Law is pleased to announce the 2020 recipient of our $5,000 Indigenous Law Student Scholarship, awarded to an Indigenous law student with a demonstrated commitment to serving and advancing the interests of Indigenous Peoples. Everyone at First Peoples Law is extremely excited for the opportunity to support our scholars...Continue reading

Sign up for First Peoples Law's mailing list @ https://buff.ly/3hzZG6K and receive episode 2 in our podcast series out tomorrow morning! #IndigenousRights #cdnpoli

"The Declaration creates space for legal pluralism and for the laws and legal systems of Indigenous peoples to be respected and upheld." https://buff.ly/3c1l97t #UNDRIP #IndigenousLaw #cdnpoli

#ICYMI This week's edition @ First Peoples Law includes UNDRIP, Treaty rights, #LandBack, systemic racism, salmon stocks and more @ https://buff.ly/3kbZEnn #IndigenousRights #cdnpoli

This week's edition @ First Peoples Law includes UNDRIP, Treaty rights, #LandBack, systemic racism, salmon stocks and more @ https://buff.ly/3kbZEnn #IndigenousRights #cdnpoli

"The land has always been here and weve always been reclaiming parts of it. So, Canadas challenge is how to keep us off of it and how to keep us from holding onto the idea that its right for us to reclaim it." https://bit.ly/3k9LTpq #LandBack #IndigenousRights #cdnpoli

For your latest news + analysis of Indigenous rights, sign up for First Peoples Law's Aboriginal Law Report and get your first edition tomorrow @ https://buff.ly/31Yo8sX #IndigenousRights #cdnpoli

Back to school: First Peoples Law's Bruce McIvor will be back at Allard Law @ UBC next week teaching a virtual seminar on the history + future of Aboriginal law in Canada. #IndigenousRights #cdnpoli #Back2School

Settler legal systems make the logistics of getting our land back difficult, but they also challenge us to bust open those systems and radically change the way we relate to each other on this continent. Get informed with this new collection of insightful pieces on #LandBack in "Canada" @ https://bit.ly/2Fes2GS #cdnpoli

"Desautel and Southwind speak to the importance of Indigenous Peoples relationship to their ancestral territories and the devastating impacts of being displaced from those lands." #ICYMI Check out Kate Gunn's review of Aboriginal law cases to watch @ the SCC this fall @ https://buff.ly/3ifpJkT #IndigenousRights #AboriginalLaw #cdnpoli

Reminder to check out the important digital teach-ins taking place on state-sanctioned violence against Black, Indigenous and racialized people hosted by #ScholarStrikeCanada @ https://buff.ly/33cQ8cW. Topics include #1492LandBackLane, Treaties, Black and Indigenous solidarity + more. #cdnpoli

"The return of the former provincial park lands is an important legal indicator for our ancestors and our future generations that we're home again and the land is legally ours." https://bit.ly/32e9NtG #IndigenousRights #cdnpoli #onpoli

"Courts today continue to grapple with how to provide timely access to justice in the midst of the ongoing pandemic. At the same time, Canadas highest court has announced that it will hear two cases in the fall of 2020 which will have significant implications for Indigenous Peoples." Righting the Wrongs of Colonization?: Cases to Watch at the Supreme Court of Canada by First Peoples Law's Kate Gunn @ https://buff.ly/3ifpJkT #IndigenousRights #AboriginalLaw #cdnpoli

RIGHTING THE WRONGS OF COLONIZATION?: CASES TO WATCH AT THE SUPREME COURT OF CANADA By Kate Gunn In the spring of 2020, court proceedings across the country were delayed or suspended as the result of the COVID-19 pandemic. This included numerous legal challenges regarding the extent of the federal and provincial governments obligations to Indigenous Peoples. ...Continue reading

This Thursday Sept 10: Check out Manitoba Eco-Network's webinar on environmental racism + the law featuring Chief Heidi Cook of Misipawistik Cree Nation and Bruce McIvor of First Peoples Law. Register @ https://buff.ly/31PnLlE #cdnpoli

Tomorrow morning we'll be publishing my colleague Kate Gunn's update on Supreme Court of Canada Aboriginal law cases to watch this fall. If you haven't yet done... so, sign up for our email list to receive it first thing tomorrow in your inbox. You can sign up @ https://www.firstpeopleslaw.com/public-education/blog See more

Sign up for First Peoples Law's mailing list @ https://buff.ly/34Axyh4 to receive Kate Gunn's latest piece on cases to watch at the Supreme Court of Canada this fall, out tomorrow morning! #IndigenousRights #cdnpoli

#ICYMI This week's edition @ First Peoples Law includes colonizer statues, COVID-19, national historic sites, Indigenous law, land defence, lobster and more @ https://buff.ly/2EUhU61 #IndigenousRights #cdnpoli