Question
Val Napoleon has argued that Allan McEachern’s infamous decision in this case stemmed from his treatment of oral histories as “cultural artifacts” rather than “embedded” law. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this 1997 case over an illegal sale of logging rights that chiefs of the Gitksan and Wet’suwet’en tribes won on appeal. This case established the current Canadian test for Aboriginal title.
ANSWER: Delgamuukw v. British Columbia [or Delgamuukw v. The Queen; or Delgamuukw-Gisday’wa]
[10e] Until Delgamuukw, First Nations’ oral histories were often conflated with this sort of inadmissible testimony, in which a witness relays a statement someone else made to them out of court.
ANSWER: hearsay
[10m] The Supreme Court of Canada created an exception to hearsay to allow James Simon to use oral evidence to prove he was a member of this group. This Algonquian people’s traditional lands include Nova Scotia.
ANSWER: Mi’kmaq [or Micmac; or Mi’gmaq]
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Summary
| 2024 Chicago Open | 07/28/2024 | Y | 12 | 14.17 | 100% | 42% | 0% |
Data
| First Cause, First Cause, make me young! | AMOGH QUIZ HACK? 英雄联盟 400 PPG 24 TUH | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| when you look this good, you don’t have to know anything | LMM's LLM MLM | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Are You There, Chat? It's Me, Margaret | Lisan al-Quib | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Mindgoblin of Little Hobbes | NJTRANSit (and bobby, i guess) | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| NJTRANSit (and anwen, I guess) | it's the great pumpkinification objection, charlie brown | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Punished "Venom" BHSU | var merchants | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Lying on a Mattress at Lou’s Apartment in Pilsen, Chicago | Read slowly: A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A Read quickly: A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| SAYYID QUTB, DRIVING THE LONGEST CAR YOU’VE EVER SEEN THROUGH TAHRIR SQUARE | Les Missourables | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| sticking out your guyot for the ridge push; you're so seafloor spread, you're so fracture zone | The Dyatlov Passement incident | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| A Nervy Liberal Nanny Hence | The Empire Bikes Back | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| BHSU B | There are buzzable clues everywhere for those with eyes to see | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| genAI this, genAI that, have you found your 真爱 yet | We Need New Names | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |