Lesson 6 Quiz

The Canadian legal system views land as property, a worldview that has challenged lawmakers attempting to incorporate Indigenous ways of seeing themselves as belonging to the land.

There is one form of Indigenous law that applies to all Nations from coast to coast to coast.

Anishinaabe law consists of interlocking rights and responsibilities. With every right, comes a stewardship obligation.

Indigenous law is adaptive and changeable, while colonial law is fixed in stone.