Reconciliation in Translation: Indigenous Legal Traditions and Canada’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission

Anker, Kirsten

doi:10.22329/wyaj.v33i2.4842

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“…While other Indigenous peoples are inspired by the Akwesasne initiative, it is hoped that as the federal government reviews the program it will find it to be consistent with all the recent proclamations and policies on Indigenous peoples' rights to self-determination and self-government within the framework of reconciliation and nation-to-nation relations. The TRC Report supports this with its call for a revitalization of Indigenous law and legal traditions as an element of reconciliation (Anker, 2016).…”

Section: Advancing Aboriginal Self-determination Through Absmentioning

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Implications of the Evolution of Canada’s Three Orders of Government for ABS Implementation

Perron-Welch

Oguamanam

2018

Genetic Resources, Justice and Reconciliation

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This chapter evaluates the potential for the governance of access and benefitsharing in Canada through the lens of different layers of government: federal, provincial, territorial and Indigenous. The emphasis of the chapter is on how the nation-to-nation approach could be an effective way to integrate Indigenous peoples' claim to genetic resources (GR) and their traditional knowledge (TK) as aspects of their self-determination. A nation-to-nation approach recognizes Indigenous peoples as stakeholders in access and benefitsharing (ABS) in ways that advance the pursuit of justice and reconciliation in Canada. With the backdrop of ongoing policy initiatives and multifaceted attempts at renewing Canadian-Indigenous relations, the chapter underscores the federal government's role in driving the charge. It will also require a commitment on the part of provincial governments, and overall political will across Canada, to draw in Indigenous peoples as genuine partners in order to fully integrate their legal traditions. Before Canada can implement the Nagoya Protocol, and any other ABS vision for that matter, all governments need to take the nation-to-nation mantra seriously and to articulate the legal status of GR and TK in Canada. introduction After 150 years of Confederation, 35 years since the repatriation of the Constitution, and 20 years after the Report of the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples (RCAP), the relationship between Canada's three orders of governmentfederal, provincial and territorial, and Indigenouscontinues to evolve. This has largely occurred through the actions of the judiciary when called upon to adjudicate on the protection of existing Aboriginal and Treaty rights under Section 35 of the 98 of use, available at https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms.

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Section: Advancing Aboriginal Self-determination Through Absmentioning

confidence: 93%

Implications of the Evolution of Canada’s Three Orders of Government for ABS Implementation

Perron-Welch

Oguamanam

2018

Genetic Resources, Justice and Reconciliation

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Challenges in Gendering Indigenous Legal Education: Insights from Professors Teaching about Indigenous Laws

Snyder¹

2019

Can. j. law soc.

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In the past decade there has been a distinct increase in literature on Indigenous laws. Calls to teach about Indigenous laws in postsecondary institutions in Canada have also intensified. This growth and these calls are significant, yet as with all fields of inquiry and teaching, there are also gaps. Gender continues to be under-addressed in work on Indigenous legal education. Drawing on interviews with twenty-three professors who teach about Indigenous law at postsecondary institutions in Canada, I examine the challenges in gendering Indigenous legal education. The professors all expressed that it is important to engage with gender when teaching, but the majority were experiencing significant challenges in actually doing so in practice. It is essential to understand how these challenges are entangled with gendered power dynamics and broader structural barriers, as they will continue to limit Indigenous legal education if not directly deconstructed and changed. Overall, the interviews signal the need for increased institutional support and change, more educational resources, eliminating discrimination, and ongoing discussion about gender and Indigenous law.

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Of places, spaces, and faces

Folaron¹

2021

Benjamins Translation Library

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The contemporary translation economy of our globalizing digital world is deeply intertwined with information and communication technologies and the Internet, with the once separate sphere of machine translation lately converging more tangibly and impactfully with translation and interpreting practices as we have traditionally understood them. The decisions on what to translate, and by whom, why, where, and when, have always been conditioned by ideology, politics, economies, and the diverse power structures and dynamics at play in society. The Internet has brought with it the growth of a “parallel” world of human social and cultural practices in digital form, one where the display and dissemination of knowledge are intimately linked to the presence, visibility, and representation on the Web of one’s language and culture, both through native language use in communication and through practices of translation and localization. Analogous to material and physical territorial geographic spaces, virtual spaces reflect tensions and asymmetries of power. In this chapter we discuss these linguistic and translational relationships of asymmetry through the prism of digital world technologies and economies, and their implications for lesser-used and low- or no-resourced language groups. This discussion is followed by examples from two contexts: firstly, the broader Indigenous territorial context of First Nations peoples in Canada; and secondly, the Arctic Indigenous cross-territorial circumpolar groups of Inuit peoples in Canada.

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Reconciliation in Translation: Indigenous Legal Traditions and Canada’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission

Cited by 9 publications

References 10 publications

Implications of the Evolution of Canada’s Three Orders of Government for ABS Implementation

Implications of the Evolution of Canada’s Three Orders of Government for ABS Implementation

Challenges in Gendering Indigenous Legal Education: Insights from Professors Teaching about Indigenous Laws

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