[Wamvan] First Nation's Rights: The Gap Between Law and Practice

[Meenakshi Mannoe]

This is a free event at the vpl:

First Nation's Rights: The Gap Between Law and Practice - Cooperation or
Conquest: Coast Salish Legal Traditions and the Canadian State A program
for adults Thursday May 17
7:00 pm-8:30 pm
Free

Alice MacKay Room, Lower Level
Central Library
350 West Georgia Street

Sarah Morales will explain Coast Salish legal traditions -snuwuyulh - and
the displacement of those laws during and after the colonial period.

Sarah Morales will explain Coast Salish legal traditions -snuwuyulh - and
the displacement of those laws during and after the colonial period. Prior
to contact with Europeans the diverse norms and practices of different
Indigenous peoples on the west coast of British Columbia had evolved into
highly developed legal traditions that guided these peoples in the
governance of community, the environment and relationships between people.
Against this background Morales will examine the concept of legal pluralism
and the potential for such a system today in Canada.

Sarah Morales is an Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Law at the
University of Ottawa and a PhD candidate at the University of Victoria. She
is Coast Salish and a member of Cowichan Tribes.
Lawyer's Rights Watch Canada, Hul'qumi'num Treaty Group and Amnesty
International For more information please contact Vancouver Public Library
at 604-331-3603 see all dates Program id 31211
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