Acknowledgements

The authors would like to thank the representatives from the Mohawks of Akwesasne, Tsuut’ina Nation, Tsawwassen First Nation, Whitecap Dakota Nation, and the Saskatchewan Ministry of Justice and Attorney General who shared their time and expertise with us during this project. We would also like to acknowledge the support we received from Andrew Beynon and Lise Steele with the Lands Advisory Board and First Nations Land Management Resource Centre in promoting this project with First Nations. We would like to thank Elder Cat Criger for his contributions and teachings and Steven Vanloffeld, from INDsight Consulting, for moderating the roundtable discussion.

We would like to thank our fellow researcher Anna Ndegwa and our colleagues in the Indigenous Justice Revitalization Section, namely Claudia Rutherford and Angela Singh for their collaboration and support throughout. Finally, the authors are grateful to their colleagues in the Research and Statistics Division and at Justice Canada more broadly for reviewing the report and providing excellent insights.