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Patricia Monture-Angus (September 24, 1958 – November 17, 2010) was a Canadian Mohawk lawyer, activist, educator and author. Monture-Angus graduated from Queen’s University law school in May 1988, and went on to do graduate work at Osgoode Hall. In August 1988, Monture-Angus filed a suit in Ontario’s Supreme Court stating that she should not be required to take an oath of allegiance to the Queen because she is a member of a sovereign nation. According to Sections 4 and 5 of the Public Officers Act, R.S.O. 1980, c. 4 15 as amended, and Rules 53 (4) and 5 1 under the Law Society Act which stated that any person appointed to any office in Ontario or called as a barrister or admitted as a solicitor must declare the following oath: Monture-Angus argued that she was a member of a sovereign people, the Mohawk Nation, whose sovereignty has never been surrendered or extinguished. This sovereignty has been consistently recognized through treaties and historical custom, both pre-dating Confederation and continuing uninterrupted thereafter.〔 The case never went to court. The Law Society agreed to change its rules and make the oath optional. Monture-Angus was called to the Ontario bar in January 1994. Monture-Angus taught law at Dalhousie University and at the University of Ottawa's Common Law School before accepting a position in the Department of Native Studies at the University of Saskatchewan in 1994. She was granted tenure in 1998 and promoted to full professor in 1999.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.fngovernance.org/bios/monture.htm )〕 She married Denis Angus of the Thunderchild First Nation Cree Nation, of Treaty Six, in 1991. Patricia Monture-Angus died on November 17, 2010 in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. ==Publications== *''Thunder in my Soul: A Mohawk Woman Speaks''. Fernwood Publishing, Halifax, 1995. *''Journeying Forward: Dreaming First Nations’ Independence.'' Fernwood Publishing, Halifax, 1999. *''First Voices: An Aboriginal Women's Reader'' Monture-Angus, Patricia and Patricia Mcguire (Eds). Inanna Publications, Toronto, 2009. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Patricia Monture-Angus」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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