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Tiya Miles

to allow Little Red to move into their basement while they sort out Red’s case

reds and orange glow of sunsets

are Mi’kmaq stories of medicines in nature

Flawed Precedent : The St. Catherine’s Case and Aboriginal Title (PB) Human Rights com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/plan_286_1In Flawed Precedent, preeminent legal scholar Kent McNeil thoroughly investigates a contentious legal case. In 1888, the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council in London ruled in St. Catherines Milling and Lumber Company v. The Queen, a case involving the Saulteaux peoples land rights in Ontario. This precedent setting case would define the legal contours of Aboriginal title in Canada for almost a hundred years, despite the racist assumptions about