[RACooper]

I am familiar with the issue...

First I don't believe any culture should be catered to more than any other culture... I really don't know all of the issues behind the drive for the recognition of this law, but it does have precedence: Native Canadian legal automonmy on the reserves an only for specific legal issues...

Now if you look at this precedence the you can see one distinct difference - juristiction. You know exactly where the Native Canadian's have legal and more importantly geographical juristiction. If a minor legal matter concerns happenings on a reserve, the Band Council has authority, where-as if the legal matter stems from actions off of the reserve then local or provincial authorities have juristiction; and at any time decisions or rulings can be appealed at provicial or fedral level by either party. I haven't seen enough information to pass judgement with this issue, but I don't see how it can work without coming into conflict with other local, provincial, or federal authorities...

An example of that was the case of the religious community that advocated some pretty harsh corpral punishments for children in the community (out by Ottawa)... they argued that religion and tradition gave them the right to enforce their practices... but they lost in courts ultimately.