SOSC 1375 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Signify, Indian Register, Gradual Civilization Act
8 Dec 2015
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On one face, the rule of law represents a crucial means whereby the dominant rules and values in a society are applied and enforced. On the other, law represents a place where those rules and values are challenged and new ways of understanding may emerge. The rule of law means were all equal before the law. Canadian law has represented fundamental means where culture has been imposed on aboriginal people. There are times where native people have challenged these values of settlers. Canadian law has oppressed and provided a way to challenge the law. Natives today are a little closer to undoing all the rules and values of the laws that criminalizing practices of native people. The quote is about natives and their legal conscious. Relations regulated by negotiation btwn fn and the crown. Recognition in practice (in law?) of internal autonomy. But: crown claims sovereignty over north america. European settlers are not able to coerce natives.
