Douglas Sanderson

Douglas Sanderson is a member of the Opaskwayak Cree Nation. He is an associate professor in the Faculty of Law at the University of Toronto. He earned his Juris Doctor at the University of Toronto and his LLM at Columbia University, where he was Fulbright fellow.

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A federal equalization program that includes First Nations

The challenge of reconciliation hinges on a series of fundamental questions: How will Indigenous and settler Canadians live side by side? How are we to understand one another’s cultures and values? How are we going …

Give the Wet’suwet’en space to conduct their law-making, away from barricades

In 1986, in preparation for the Delgamuukw land rights trial that would be held in the Supreme Court of British Columbia, an all clans feast was held in in Wet’suwet’en territory, in the northwestern central …

How to treat First Nations as equals? Abandon your “consultations”

The National Energy Board (NEB) has once again recommended the expansion of the Trans Mountain pipeline, provided additional measures are taken to ensure tanker safety in the environmentally sensitive Salish Sea. Anyone following this ongoing …

The Indian Act and the subsidization of the south

When Europeans arrived on the shores of what is now called North America, they encountered complex civilizations. At home in the cosmopolitan heartland of powerful confederacies, Indigenous people adopted settler people into a pre-existing web …

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Articles by this author

A federal equalization program that includes First Nations

Give the Wet’suwet’en space to conduct their law-making, away from barricades

How to treat First Nations as equals? Abandon your “consultations”

The Indian Act and the subsidization of the south

TheIndian Act and the subsidization of the south