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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 28 February 2025
In this article Amy Kaufman, Head Law Librarian at Queen's University, Kingston, Canada, examines what role Canadian law libraries can take in responding to the findings of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) Report in 2015, which examined the treatment of Aboriginal people in the country throughout its history, and its Calls to Action.
1 Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada, Honouring the Truth, Reconciling for the Future: Summary of the Final Report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada (2015) at v, <https://ehprnh2mwo3.exactdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Executive_Summary_English_Web.pdf>
2 Ibid at 319.
3 Ibid at 323.
4 You can find versions of our former policy on the Wayback Machine: <https://web.archive.org/web/20211028035141/https://library.queensu.ca/research/collections/law/>
5 Queen's University Law Library, Collection Development Strategy (last revised April 2024), <https://assets.library.queensu.ca/Law_Library_Collection_Development_Strategy_2024.pdf>
6 Napoleon, Val, “Thinking about Indigenous Legal Orders” in Provost, René and Sheppard, Colleen, eds, Dialogues on Human Rights and Legal Pluralism (Dordrecht: Springer, 2013) 229Google Scholar at 231. Emphasis added, footnote omitted. See also Napoleon, Val and Friedland, Hadley, “An Inside Job: Engaging with Indigenous Legal Traditions through Stories” (2016) 61:4 McGill Law Journal 725CrossRefGoogle Scholar, <https://lawjournal.mcgill.ca/article/an-inside-job-engaging-with-indigenous-legal-traditions-through-stories/>
7 Friedland, Hadley, “Reflective Frameworks: Methods for Accessing, Understanding and Applying Indigenous Laws” (2012) 11:1 Indigenous Law Journal 1 at 11-12Google Scholar, <https://jps.library.utoronto.ca/index.php/ilj/article/view/27628/20360>
8 Ibid at 12-13.
9 National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation, Reports, < https://nctr.ca/records/reports/#trc-reports>
10 University of Alberta, Faculty of Native Studies, Indigenous Canada, <www.ualberta.ca/admissions-programs/online-courses/indigenous-canada/index.html>
11 RAVEN, Home on Native Land, < https://homeonnativeland.com/courses/home-on-native-land/>
12 BOLD Realities, TakingITGlobal, and Canadian Roots Exchange, <www.whose.land/en/about>
13 You can get a sense of the schedule here: <https://loc.gov/aba/publications/Archived-LCC2021/LCC_KI-KIL2021TEXT.pdf>
18 Borrows, John, Canada's Indigenous Constitution (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2010)Google Scholar at 56.
19 Callison, Camille, Ludbrook, Ann, Owen, Victoria, and Nayyer, Kim, “Engaging Respectfully with Indigenous Knowledge: Copyright, Customary Law, and Cultural Memory Institutions in Canada” (2021) 5:1 KULA: Knowledge Creation, Dissemination, and Preservation Studies 1CrossRefGoogle Scholar at 11, <https://kula.uvic.ca/index.php/kula/article/view/146/274>