We are grateful to receive the support of the Wahkohtowin Law and Governance Lodge. Please read their testimonials below and learn more about how ALF supports their work.

The Wahkohtowin Law and Governance Lodge is deeply grateful for the ongoing support of the Alberta Law Foundation. Thanks to ALF’s support, what started as a small dream to develop an Alberta response to the TRC’s Call to Action #50 (Indigenous law institutes) has grown into a strong and sustainable research unit dedicated to supporting Indigenous Nations and organizations’ law revitalization and governance goals. ALF has been with us every step of the way, enabling us to be nimble and responsive to Indigenous communities’ expressed needs and goals. Thanks to ALF, since 2018, we have been able to provide: 

Public Legal Education

WLGL has provided 217 Public Legal Education (PLE) presentations to over 15,000 people. We have 27 PLE publicly available print resources, with six more in progress, and eleven PLE video resources with more to come. All of our resources are free to access thanks to the support of the Alberta Law Foundation. 

Community Research and Support

We have engaged in over 190 individual coaching and advising sessions in response to requests from Indigenous communities and organizations, government, legal professionals and other professionals, as well as entered into nine community-initiated, community-led major Indigenous law research projects. 

Community Workshops 

We have offered 35 workshops (Community Research Methods for Revitalizing Indigenous Laws, Wisdom Workshops and Law-adapted Blanket Exercises) for over 1300 participants from over 100 distinct Indigenous communities. 

The Alberta Law Foundation's support ensures that we continue producing high-quality Indigenous law research and publications, developing clear and accessible Indigenous law tools and resources, gathering and curating wise practices and promising methods, and delivering public, continuing, and judicial legal education to increase the understanding and implementation of Indigenous laws within Indigenous communities, in the legal profession, and among all Albertans and Canadians. 

The Alberta Law Foundation not only supports many paths for bridging the gaps in Access to Justice in Alberta, but also, in supporting initiatives like the WLGL, sparks legal innovation and expands what Access to Justice is imagined as, empowering the transformative work the TRC Final Report called for.