August 29, 1991 - Aboriginal Justice System - a podcast by Stephen Hammond

Aboriginals need separate justice system, says Manitoba inquiry. Questionable circumstances surrounding the 1971 murder of Betty Osborne, a First Nations woman in The Pas, Manitoba, prompted concern among Manitobans about whether racism lurked within the justice system where it was applied to aboriginals. When aboriginal leader J.J. Harper died while in police custody in 1988, that concern grew. In response, the Manitoba government created an inquiry into aboriginal justice in 1988. On August 29, 1991 the inquiry tabled its report, which encouraged the government to come up with a judicial and corrections system more responsive to the needs of its growing aboriginal population. In fact, the inquiry suggested that aboriginal people have their own justice system, a proposal that aboriginal leaders instantly supported, but non-aboriginal political leaders criticized. In 1999, the government set up a commission assigned to find ways to implement some of the recommendations from the 1991 report. In 2001 the term of the commission ended with the government given the task of finding ways to improve the lives of Manitoba aboriginals.

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