In this article “Creating Space for Indigenous Storytelling in Courts” by Kristen Manley-Casimir the author argues that we should have indigenous story telling within the Canadian courts. The author clearly focuses on the principles of the emotion of the judges, their opening themselves up to the discomfort of the stories these all being brought upon by the “Indigenous testimonies”. This therefore making the process of on going negotiation and how we need to be involved in the moral imagination to make the Indigenous testimonies to Canadian courts and overall make it more culturally acceptable. The author states that he has split the article in to three parts. The first part having the structure and the important terminology used in article. The second part outlining the colonial violence against indigenous …show more content…
In the last part the author gives his/her opinion on how the Canadian courts can efficiently devote to decolonization by using “central principles”, these principles would include the colonial interests as far as by the states legal system and their judges, also how the court will experience an epiphany creating a lot of emotion and discomfort through the Indigenous storytelling within the Canadian court system. The author shows many ways of supporting why indigenous storytelling in courts should be used in the Canadian legal court system through colonial legal violence, the competing conception of law, restoring history through narrative, and the role of Canadian law in decolonization. First the author supports the reason of making the Canadian courts involve indigenous storytelling through colonial violence. Manley-Casimir speaks of how many theorists have distinguished the violence fundamental in the state legal systems. Similarly she states that indigenous theorists conjointly