Describe in detail the story of Nanabush vs deer, wolf et Al. What does John borrows attempt to show about Anishinaabe law through this case? What accounts for the failure to see indigenous law as law? How are indigenous stories similar (and different) from case law?

Official Story of Canadian Law

• The official narrative of the history of this land, Canada was built by two

founding nations - the British and the French.

• As a result Canada developed a political, cultural, linguistic and legal

landscape the fused French and English traditions and structures.

• This narrative erases indigenous peoples, values and traditions
• Continued the perception that indigenous law did not exist.

Erasure of Indigenous legal systems

• Too often Indigenous peoples have been portrayed as having no laws.
• When indigenous law is acknowledged, they are oversimplified and flattened

as cultural beliefs or values, rather than as complex intellectual processes for

reasoning, decision making and social ordering.

• We can think about the notable ways in which the settler colonial project of

Canada has impacted indigenous people.

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7uNgq7raxk4

Aboriginal law vs. Indigenous law

• Aboriginal law

is a body of law, made by the courts and legislatures, that

largely deals with the unique constitutional rights of Aboriginal peoples and

the relationship between Aboriginal peoples and the Crown.

• Indigenous law

consists of legal orders which are rooted in Indigenous

societies themselves. It arises from communities and First Nation groups

across the country