Wednesday, March 15, 2017 West Coast's RELAW Project Lead Maxine Hayman Matilpi shares stories from a recent conference that brought together historians, legal scholars and Indigenous people who are direct descendants of the signatories to the Vancouver Island Treaties (aka Douglas Treaties). The topic spurred rich conversations about the ways
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Environmental Law Alert Blog: Mni Wiconi: Water is life, more than ever
Wednesday, February 1, 2017 These simple and profound words, “Water is Sacred,” have become a call to action in North Dakota. Since April 2016, thousands of people have gathered there to protect water from “the Black Snake,” the Dakota Access pipeline proposed to bring oil under the Missouri River. After a year
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Wednesday, February 1, 2017 These simple and profound words, “Water is Sacred,” have become a call to action in North Dakota. Since April 2016, thousands of people have gathered there to protect water from “the Black Snake,” the Dakota Access pipeline proposed to bring oil under the Missouri River. After a year
Continue readingEnvironmental Law Alert Blog: RELAW Project: Summer in review
Monday, September 19, 2016
Over the summer, the Revitalizing Indigenous Law for Land, Air and Wate…
Continue readingEnvironmental Law Alert Blog: Field notes from the Haida Gwaii Potlatch: Why government and industry should take heed of Indigenous governance decisions
Wednesday, September 14, 2016
I was honoured to have been invited to witness this historic potlatch, Raven Always Sets Things Right, hosted by the Yahgulaan…
Continue readingEnvironmental Law Alert Blog: Revitalizing Indigenous Law for Land, Air and Water: The Cheakamus Retreat
Monday, June 20, 2016
The Revitalizing Indigenous Law for Land, Air, and Water (RELAW) Project is …
Continue readingEnvironmental Law Alert Blog: Reflections on RELAW: The role of stories in law
Friday, June 17, 2016
West Coast is excited to launch the Revitalizing Indigenous Law for Land, Ai…
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