Flawed Precedent : The St. Catherine’s Case and Aboriginal Title (HC) Recipes Interspersed throughout the text are

Interspersed throughout the text are 40 poems that did not appear in Johnson's classic volume

Nancy Peters

written by an Aboriginal rights lawyer who served as one of the legal counsel for the Musqueam and argued on their behalf all the way to the highest court

It also introduces young children to Northwest Coast art designs while explaining the importance of interdependence with the environment

The illustrations are by the author

Flawed Precedent : The St. Catherine’s Case and Aboriginal Title (HC) Recipes Interspersed throughout the text areIn Flawed Precedent, preeminent legal scholar Kent McNeil thoroughly investigates a contentious legal case. In 1888, the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council in London ruled in St. Catherines Milling and Lumber Company v. The Queen, a case involving the Saulteaux peoples land rights in Ontario. This precedent setting case would define the legal contours of Aboriginal title in Canada for almost a hundred years, despite the racist assumptions about