[Extract from the graduation thesis Recognition of the rights of the Native Peoples of Canada2015]
Following the drafting of the 1982 Constitution and the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, many academics, lawyers and experts in criminal law and representatives of First Nations they clamored for the implementation of a judicial process more consistent with native values โโand traditions.ย The possibility, concerning the creation of an alternative criminal procedure, which takes into consideration the native legal vision and the principles that characterize it, is part of the broader discourse concerning the process towards self-determination and self-government that the native populations of Canada have for some decades now.
