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First Peoples Law Blog

Our latest analysis of Indigenous rights.
In Brief: Thomas v. Rio Tinto Alcan Inc., 2024 BCCA 62
March 21 2024
By Kate Gunn
The Troubling Basis for the Supreme Court’s Child Welfare Law Decision
February 12 2024
By Bruce McIvor
Reframing Aboriginal Rights: R. c. Montour
January 18 2024
By Kate Gunn and Cody O'Neil
2023 Indigenous Rights Year in Review
January 4 2024
By First Peoples Law LLP
Indigenous Rights and Marine Spaces: Chippewas of Nawash v. Canada
November 30 2023
By Kate Gunn
Reconciliation and Aboriginal Title: Case Comment on The Nuchatlaht v British Columbia
July 27 2023
By Kate Gunn and Nico McKay
Consent, Indigenous Rights and the Tahltan Agreement
July 6 2022
By Kate Gunn
Residential Schools and Reconciliation: A Canada Day Proposal
June 16 2021
By Bruce McIvor
Reconciling Interests, Upholding Indigenous Land Rights: Aboriginal Title Cases to Watch
March 18 2021
By Kate Gunn and Nico McKay
First Peoples Lawcast
July 16 2020
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Reconciliation on Trial: Wet'suwet'en, Aboriginal Title and the Rule of Law
June 10 2020
By Bruce McIvor
Wet'suwet'en Reading List
May 6 2020
By Bruce McIvor
#WetsuwetenStrong in the Wake of COVID-19
May 6 2020
By Kate Gunn
First Peoples Law Reading List
March 30 2020
By Bruce McIvor
La nation Wet’suwet’en, les gouvernements et les peuples autochtones : Un plan de réconciliation en 5 étapes
February 20 2020
Par Bruce McIvor (Traduction : Denis Marier)
The Wet’suwet’en, Governments and Indigenous Peoples: A 5 Step Plan for Reconciliation
February 20 2020
By Bruce McIvor
The Wet'suwet'en, Aboriginal Title, and the Rule of Law: An Explainer
February 13 2020
By Kate Gunn and Bruce McIvor
Reconciliation at the End of a Gun: The Wet’suwet’en and the RCMP
February 7 2020
By Bruce McIvor
Open Letter to Prime Minister Trudeau and Premier Horgan Re: Wet’suwet’en Hereditary Chiefs’ Opposition to Coastal GasLink Pipeline Project
January 23 2020
Why Canadian Law Should be on the Side of the Wet’suwet’en in the Pipeline Confrontation
January 10 2019
By Bruce McIvor
The Downside of the Tsilhqot’in Decision
October 19 2016
By Bruce McIvor
Doubling Down on Denial
February 10 2016
By Bruce McIvor
Aboriginal Law Issues to Watch in 2016
January 13 2016
By Bruce McIvor
The Good and the Bad of 2015
January 6 2016
By Bruce McIvor
Top 5 Posts of 2015
December 23 2015
By Bruce McIvor
Breathing Life Back into the Duty to Consult
August 25 2015
By Bruce McIvor
What Tsilhqot’in and Grassy Narrows Mean for Treaty First Nations
January 14 2015
By Bruce McIvor
Canada's Misguided Land Claims Policy
November 24 2014
By Bruce McIvor
Canada's Interim Comprehensive Land Claims Policy
November 10 2014
By Bruce McIvor
Tsilhqot’in Nation Announces Release of Draft Mining Policy
July 31 2014
By Bruce McIvor
Wabauskang First Nation's Press Release in Response to Keewatin Decision
July 11 2014
By Bruce McIvor
Provinces Burdened with Responsibility for Fulfilling Treaty Promises
July 11 2014
By Bruce McIvor
The Age of Recognition: The Significance of the Tsilhqot'in Decision
June 27 2014
By Bruce McIvor
Update on the Keewatin Hearing at Supreme Court of Canada
May 6 2014
By Bruce McIvor
The Next Big Aboriginal Law Case at the Supreme Court
February 22 2014
By Bruce McIvor
Whither Aboriginal Title?
March 4 2013
By Bruce McIvor