File F4 - Dr. John Borrows

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AC-S1-SS1-F4

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Dr. John Borrows

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  • 2014 (Creation)

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1 born digital moving image file in MP4 format (Moving Pictures Expert Group 4)
1 born digital textual transcript in PDF (Portable Document Format)

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(2010-)

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Research and Curation was established in 2010, when it was originally called Research, Content and Scholarship. In 2011, when Collections moved to the Design + New Media department (later called Design + New Media & Collections), the Research, Content and Scholarship department name was then changed to Research and Curation.

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This file consists of an oral history interview with John Borrows, and associated documents. The interview was conducted by Armando Perla on February 17, 2014.

Dr. Borrows speaks about:
• His family, Anishinaabe background and experiences growing up around the Cape Croker Indian Reserve, near Georgian Bay, Ontario.
• His Aboriginal focus in both his LLM and PhD degrees, and teaching law at places such as the University of Victoria Law School and the University of Minnesota Law School.
• How legal traditions and treaties in Canada, such as the Royal Proclamation, Constitution Act, Great Peace of Montreal, etc., impact and interact with Indigenous peoples and their legal traditions.
• The development of Indigenous legal traditions and courts, and their future role in common law and civil law practices in Canada.

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Access to this material is restricted to users of the Canadian Museum for Human Rights Reference Centre. Please contact the Archivist at archivist [at] humanrights.ca to make an appointment to access this material.

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  • English

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