Durvile True Cases

Indigenous Justice is Book 10 in the Durvile True Cases series. In the spirit of truth and reconciliation and respectful of Indigenous cultural integrity, judges, lawyers, and law enforcement officers write about working with First Nations, Métis, and Inuit Peoples through their trials and tribulations with the criminal justice system. The stories are a mix of previously published essays from the True Cases anthologies with an equal number of new chapters by legal and law enforcement professionals. Foreword Chief Justice Shannon Smallwood Supreme Court of the Northwest Territories Introduction Lorene Shyba and Raymond Yakeleya Mindful of Culture and Tradition PART I The Judges and Senator 1. The Hon. Justice Thomas R. Berger The Mackenzie Valley Pipeline Inquiry 2. The Hon. Nancy Morrison Three Stories 3. The Hon. John Reilly Baret Labelle and Restorative Justice 4. The Hon. John Z. Vertes The Case of Henry Innuksuk 5. The Hon. Kim Pate The Story of S: A Study in Discrimination and Inequality PART II Lawyers 6. Eleanore Sunchild KC Treaty Lessons: The Killing of Colten Boushie 7. Jonathan Rudin The Death of Reggie Bushie and the Eight-Year Inquest 8. Catherine Dunn Silent Partner 9. Joseph Saulnier Justice in Hazelton: One Family, Two Murder Trials, a Hundred Years Apart 10. Brian Beresh KC A Life's Journey for Indigenous Justice 11. Jennifer Briscoe Fly-in Justice in the North 12. John L. Hill Carved in Stone: The Mistreatment of Inuit Offenders PART III Law Enforcement and Parole Officer 13. Ernie Louttit There is No Law Against It Constable 14. Sharon Bourque A Full-Circle Experience 15. Constable Val Hoglund The Unwitting Criminal 16. Doug Heckbert I Know Who Killed My Brother 17. Doug Heckbert and Jennifer Bryce Getting FPS# Off Our Backs I'm struck by how the True Cases series has a multiplicity of authentic perspectives that are able to be our proxy or conduit into amazing worlds... Stories that are happening in our community and to our neighbours that we should know about but don't." -Grant Stovers, CKUA Radio Thomas Rodney Berger QC OC OBC was a Canadian politician and jurist. He was briefly a member of the House of Commons of Canada in the early 1960s and was a justice of the Supreme Court of British Columbia from 1971 to 1983. In 1974, he became the royal commissioner of the Mackenzie Valley Pipeline Inquiry, which released its findings in 1977. He was a member of the Order of Canada and the Order of British Columbia. Justice Berger died on April 28, 2021. A lawyer, arbitrator, and judge, as well as a political activist and feminist, Nancy Morrison practiced law and adjudicated in Ontario, Saskatchewan, British Columbia, Yukon, and Northwest Territories. As a judge, she served for nine years on the British Columbia Provincial Court and 15 years on the Supreme Court of British Columbia. Raised in Yorkton, Saskatchewan, she now lives in Vancouver, BC. Her memoir Benched: Passion for Law Reform was published in 2018 in the Durvile Reflections series.