Grants and Contributions

The project will be focused on assisting the Muskat Dam and Mishkeegogamang through the use of pre-charge diversion to address offences at the community level through the restorative justice process. This project will provide both pre-charge and by-law programming to Weagamow and Mishkeegogaming.

This project will host a research think tank that brings together Syilx lawyers and knowledge holders to document legal traditions; create a toolkit to educate the community on traditional legal principals; and create a series of booklets and videos to increase the understanding of the Declarations.

This project aims to provide Peskotomuhkati with the capacity to engage the Government of Canada on the aspects of the United Nations Declaration and the Action Plan that they have identified as priorities.

The project will conduct research, collection, documentation, and preservation of key Inuit legal concepts. These legal principles will focus on Inuit justice for women and children, including the role of Elders as mediators and mentors for men and boys. A digital archive will be established and shared for the purposes of informing the revitalization Inuit justice practices.

The project will carry out research, hold collaborative workshops, and compile a report on the findings on legal traditions, their significance in contemporary contexts, plausible paths for implementation and coexistence with colonial law and legal structures, and policy recommendations.

This project will identify customs, protocols, laws and legal orders by engaging with Elders and Knowledge Weavers; engage the Sḵwx̱wú7mesh people; draft Sḵwx̱wú7mesh customs and protocols; collaborate with experts such as legal advisors at the Indigenous Law Research Unit at University of Victoria; finalize and codify Sḵwx̱wú7mesh customs and protocols. The project will carry out research, draft customary and community-based laws, share information with other treaty groups (6, 7, 8) and hold a stakeholder conference to educate on customary laws and practices.

This project will revitalize Sunchild First Nation’s unique and historic Customary Laws and put them into practice. The project will conduct research into Sunchild’s Customary Laws, traditions and beliefs, the development of a community task force to develop customary laws, and will conclude with information sharing with Judicial stakeholders and at venues such as regional conferences.

The proposed project will support the recording and preservation of Takla Nation's Indigenous law and legal traditions through interviews with Elders and Knowledge-Keepers in the community. Carrying with Takla's heritage, this project will be recorded through the oral histories, with one-on-one interviewing, focused on legal traditions. The findings will be compiled in a final report which will inform the work of the nation.

This project aims to hold a symposium event, workshops, and roundtables to provide a platform for Northern Indigenous Communities to share ongoing efforts to achieve self-determination over lands and resources in their respective communities as it relates to United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP).

This project will bring back the customary law of the potlatch to Tr’ondek Hwech’in by undertaking, research, a potlatch learning ceremony, and knowledge transfer through workshops, protocols and practicing the potlatch.