Indigenous Legal Traditions.
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TextSeries: Legal Dimensions SeriesPublisher: Vancouver : University of British Columbia Press, 2007Copyright date: ©2007Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (188 pages)Content type: - text
- computer
- online resource
- 9780774855778
- Indians of North America -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Canada
- Indigenous peoples -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Canada
- Indians of North America -- Canada -- Government relations
- Indigenous peoples -- Canada -- Government relations
- Indians of North America -- Canada -- Social life and customs
- Indigenous peoples -- Canada -- Social life and customs
- Customary law -- Canada
- 342.7108/72
- KE7735 -- .I53 2007eb
Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction: Which Way Out of Colonialism? -- 1 "Getting to a Better Place": Qwi:qwelstóm, the Stó:l& -- #333 -- , and Self-Determination -- 2 An Apology Feast in Hazelton: Indian Residential Schools, Reconciliation, and Making Space for Indigenous Legal Traditions -- 3 Reconciliation without Respect? Section 35 and Indigenous Legal Orders -- 4 Legal Processes, Pluralism in Canadian Jurisprudence, and the Governance of Carrier Medicine Knowledge -- 5 Territoriality, Personality, and the Promotion of Aboriginal Legal Traditions in Canada -- Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- L -- M -- N -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y.
The essays in this book present important perspectives on the role of Indigenous legal traditions in reclaiming and preserving the autonomy of Aboriginal communities and in reconciling the relationship between these communities and Canadian governments.
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