The Supreme Court of Canada clarified Aboriginal title and held that courts must adapt evidentiary rules to take Indigenous oral histories seriously. It ordered a new trial rather than awarding the claimed territory outright. The ruling challenged a hierarchy of knowledge that privileged written colonial records over Indigenous accounts of land and history.
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What evidentiary issue was important in Delgamuukw?
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The court required an approach to evidence that could accommodate Indigenous oral histories rather than discounting them by conventional assumptions.
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