What is the significance of the R. v. Drybones case
It showed that parts of the Indian act could be repealed if they violated the rights of the people
Name of the case involving an Indigenous man being drunk on a reserve
R. v. Drybones
What did the three dissenting judges feel
Parliament was instructing the court to apply the bill of rights but not to render laws inoperative
Trial de novo meaning
A new trial before another tribunal than the one that held the first trial
Tribunal definition
a court of justice
Indian definition
The legal identity of an Indigenous person who is registered under the Indian act
Indigenous definition
A collective noun for First Nations, Metis and Inuit
Aboriginal term
The noun used in the Constitution act and includes the Indian, Inuit and Metis peoples
how were treaties recorded by the Indigenous
They were recorded by being spoken and through symbolic items
Barriers for getting clean drinking water for Indigenous
Marshall ruling
Indigenous peoples had treaty rights to fish outside of regulated times to make a “moderate- living”.
The government added what after non-indigenous fishers went to the supreme court
The government could restrict fishing for Indigenous if they had a good reason