Flawed Precedent : The St. Catherine’s Case and Aboriginal Title (HC) Recipes written by an Aboriginal rights

written by an Aboriginal rights lawyer who served as one of the legal counsel for the Musqueam and argued on their behalf all the way to the highest court

With breathtaking virtuosity

and relationship-building

and Oklahoma

The British government wanted Indigenous lands for their citizens

Flawed Precedent : The St. Catherine’s Case and Aboriginal Title (HC) Recipes written by an Aboriginal rightsIn 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