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Waniskā: Reimagining the Future with Indigenous Legal Traditions
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Friedland, Hadley |
| Copyright Year | 2017 |
| Abstract | With the release of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s final report, which stressed the revitalization of Indigenous legal traditions is essential to reconciliation, we are potentially at the cusp of a historical turning point in Canada. As momentum around the revitalization of Indigenous laws grows, this raises many important questions for the future. Can we collectively imagine a Canada where Indigenous law is integrated and in use? What would, or should, this respectful relationship look like? This article explores these questions through narrative. Narrative, as many Indigenous and non-Indigenous thinkers have identified, has unique capacity to create space for conversations, spark imagination, and let us contemplate the incomprehensible. This article mindfully uses narrative as a means to vulnerably re-imagine a future relationship between Indigenous and other legal traditions in Canada. It acknowledges the deep-rooted enduring power of Indigenous laws, as well as both the immensity and transitory nature of current complexities. It names aspects of learning and engagement with the Cree legal tradition the author may never fully comprehend, but still senses are important. It grapples with the enormity of hope and despair, the power of violence and the power of love. It argues, through narrative, that law is living, time is fluid, change is possible and our shared future is ours to re-imagine. Depuis la publication du rapport final de la Commission de verite et de reconciliation, selon lequel la reconciliation passe par la revitalisation des traditions juridiques autochtones, nous sommes peut-etre a l’aube d’un point tournant historique au Canada. Cependant, si la revitalisation du droit autochtone gagne en popularite, elle souleve aussi d’importantes questions pour l’avenir. Pouvons-nous imaginer collectivement un Canada ou le droit autochtone serait integre et applique? A quoi ressemblerait, ou devrait ressembler, cette relation axee sur le respect? Dans cet article, ces questions sont explorees a l’aide d’un recit. Comme de nombreux theoriciens autochtones et non autochtones l’ont reconnu, le recit favorise les conversations et stimule l’imagination, en plus de nous permettre d’entrevoir ce qui est incomprehensible. L’auteur utilise ici a bon escient un recit afin d’aider le lecteur a reconcevoir une relation ulterieure entre les traditions juridiques autochtones et les autres traditions juridiques qui existent au Canada. Il reconnait le pouvoir profondement enracine des lois autochtones ainsi que l’immensite et la nature transitoire des difficultes actuelles. Il evoque aussi des aspects de l’apprentissage et de l’engagement envers la tradition juridique crie qu’il ne pourra peut-etre jamais comprendre parfaitement, mais dont il percoit l’importance. Il decrit la force de l’espoir et du desespoir, ainsi que le pouvoir de la violence et de l’amour. Toujours a l’aide d’un recit, l’auteur affirme que le droit est bien vivant, que le temps est fluide, que le changement est possible et que c’est a nous qu’il incombe de reconcevoir l’avenir que nous vivrons ensemble. |
| Starting Page | 85 |
| Ending Page | 101 |
| Page Count | 17 |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| DOI | 10.22329/wyaj.v33i1.4811 |
| Volume Number | 33 |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://wyaj.uwindsor.ca/index.php/wyaj/article/download/4811/4035 |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://doi.org/10.22329/wyaj.v33i1.4811 |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
