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Article: How one man proved an Aboriginal right.
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- September 1, 1997
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Windspeaker Staff Writer
CORNWALL, Ont.
Winning a case in a court where your opponent hires the judge, trains the judge, pays the judge, writes the rules of the game and depends on an almost bottomless source of tax revenue to pay lawyers and experts to outwork you, outthink you or outlast you, is no simple feat.
It takes very careful planning and, as one of Chief Mike Mitchell's lawyers said, a certain amount of restraint.
"The cases have to be selected and designed very carefully. They can be won, but if you get greedy or you get stupid you're going to lose," Paul Williams said.
Mitchell and his Akwesasne Mohawk advisors ...