Aboriginal & Indigenous Law

Howe Legal has broad experience acting for First Nations

and can assist Indigenous governments, corporations and individuals

with a range of issues

Fair and just implementation of the historic treaties between the Crown in Right of Canada and the Indigenous nations is required by the honour of the Crown and, that of every Canadian.

The enactment of sections 25 and 35 of the Constitution Act, 1982, and Canada’s gradual meandering toward full implementation of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples are but symptoms of an underlying paradigm shift. Once highly oppressed, Indigenous nations are in modern times revitalizing, increasingly exercising their law and policy making jurisdiction, participating in the main stream economy, and so much more.

This trend is long overdue, and there remains much work to be done, to help heal the wounds of the past and to move forward as a country in a good way but it is happening day by day. They are inspiring times. We are witness to a rebirth of some of the most positive elements of the early relationship between Indigenous and newcomers, involving partnerships, mutual respect and alliance.

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“If you talk to the animals they will talk with you and you will know each other. If you do not talk to them you will not know them and what you do not know,

you will fear. What one fears, one destroys.”

― Chief Dan George