Broken Trust: Finding Our Way Out of the Damaged Relationship Through the Rebuilding of Indigenous Legal Institutions

AuthorAimée Craft
Pages379-393
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BrokenTrust
FINDINGOURWAYOUTOFTHE
DAMAGEDRELATIONSHIPTHROUGHTHE
REBUILDINGOFINDIGENOUS
LEGALINSTITUTIONS
Aimée Craft*
Aboriginal peoples need to become the law’s architects
and interpreters where it applies to their collective rights and interests.
A. INTRODUCTION
TherightsofIndigenouspeopleinCanadaareenshrinedintheConsti
tutionandsupportedbyimperativesofreconciliationandthehonourof
theCrownInternationallytherightsofIndigenouspeopleareconrmed
indeclarationsandconventionsthatacknowledgethesovereigntyofIn
digenous peoplei n their home territories Howeverin Canada thes e
rightsarecastundertheshadowofalonghistoryofcolonizationand
colonialismracismandprejudiceassimilationandculturalgenocide
ReectionsonthisdarkhistoryandbrokentrustbetweenCanadaand
IndigenouspeoplewererevisitedbysomewhileCanadacelebrated
yearsofConfederationManylamentedthebrokentrustthatcontinues
toshapetherelationship
 FacultyofLawUniversityofOawa
 TruthandReconciliationCommissionofCanadaTRCThe Final Re port of the Truth
and Reconciliation Commissio n of CanadavolWinnipegTheCommissionat
TruthandReconciliation

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