Kruger v R
Jacob Kruger and Robert Manuel were Penticton First Nations people in British Columbia who killed deer outside hunting season.Since the hunting violated the provincial Wildlife Act, they were charged, but they appealed citing their Aboriginal rights under the Royal Proclamation, 1763.Dickson first found that if hunting rights have been denied, it is not necessarily true that compensation must be provided in turn.As Dickson quoted another judge as saying, "no statute of the Provincial Legislature dealing with Indians or their lands as such would be valid and effective; but there is no reason why general legislation may not affect them.As Professor Peter Hogg writes, Indianness (primary Aboriginal issues under federal jurisdiction), should include hunting on a reserve.