Law - Indigenous Law

Documenting the government’s management of aboriginal affairs from the late 1700s to the mid 1900s, exploring issues of land ownership, education, law, finances, health, and community development.

Published and archival heritage material that represents First Nations, Inuit and Métis Nation experiences and contributions to Canada. This includes text, photographs, maps, and audio-visual material.

Has searchable image-based database of pleadings from selected cases in Canada involving Aboriginal litigants; information on coverage unclear, but document dates range between 1983 and 2009.

Using an interactive map, links to tribal websites and primary source materials (including laws and treaties) found on the internet on a global scale.

Comprehensive collection of primary sources available in HTML and PDF (not image-based) deposited in the Library and Archives Canada Electronic Collection; documents are not arranged in any particular order; some documents not linked; no longer updated since 2005.

Includes: First Nations Digital Document Source (FNDDS), which has electronic documents supporting First Nations land rights research; Federal and Provincial Collections of Minutes of Decision, Correspondence, and Sketches (materials produced by the Joint Indian Reserve Commission and the Indian Reserve Commission, 1876-1910) & Our Homes Are Bleeding (multimedia collection focused on the cut-off lands in BC including the records of the McKenna McBride Royal Commission, 1913-1916).