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McGill Style Guide (10th ed).

Indigenous Legislative Documents

Follow the order of information, punctuation, and capitalization in the examples below. See section 2.2 of the Canadian Guide to Uniform Legal Citation (10th ed.) for complete rules on citing Indigenous legislative documents.

Examples

Constitution of the Ta’an Kwäch’än Council, (2024), online: <taan.ca> [https://taan.ca/legal-and-regulatory/constitutions/].

Akwesasne Election Law, Kaiahneronshera Iehiontakwa [Law Registry] No 2024 –01, (2024), enacted pursuant to Mohawk Council Resolution 2024/2025-101, online: <webdev.akwesasne.ca> [http-www-akwesasne-ca-wp-content-uploads-2019-11-alr-2019-02-ael-pdf].

NOTES: The McGill Guide provides a few examples of Indigenous Constitutions. If the title isn't in English, include a description/translation in parentheses after the title in square brackets. Do not italicize the description/translation in parentheses.  

Your professor may have different citing expectations than library staff. Always check at the beginning of term and before starting assignments that the citing rules you are using are appropriate for your class.

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