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  Aboriginal Law > Court Cases
  Over time, materials will be posted to this page regarding key court decisions relevant to Aboriginal and treaty rights in the forest sector of Canada.
   
  R. v. Sappier; R. v. Gray (December 7, 2006)
  The Supreme Court upheld the rights of native people to log Crown land for personal use, issuing a unanimous judgment Thursday on two New Brunswick cases. A key feature of this decision is the confirmation that rights to resource uses cannot be "frozen in time", but rather must be understood as evolving in a modern context. Click here for the full case, and here for a brief article on the case.
   
  Full texts of most of the decisions listed here can be found at the Judgements of the Supreme Court of Canada website.
   
  Turtle Island Native Network - Court Cases section
   
 

First Nations Rights to Timber – Case Law Summary

 

  Cases in process
  Statement of Claim (2005) - Grassy Narrows First Nation v. Ontario Minister of Natural Resources and Abitibi-Consolidated Inc.
  Grassy Narrows's claim challenges the authority and jurisdiction of the defendants based on rights guaranteed in Treaty 3.