The problem of justice: tradition and law in the Coast Salish world
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Main Author: Miller, Bruce Granville (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Lincoln [Neb.] University of Nebraska Press ©2001
Series:Fourth world rising
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Item Description:Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-234) and index
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Series Editors' Introduction -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Foreground -- 2. Background -- 3. Upper Skagit Justice -- 4. The Stó:lo Nation -- 5. An Intertribal Justice Discussion -- 6. The South Island Justice Project -- 7. Conclusion -- Series Editors' Afterword -- References
For the indigenous peoples of North America, the history of colonialism has often meant a distortion of history, even, in some cases, a loss or distorted sense of their own native practices of justice. How contemporary native communities have dealt quite differently with this dilemma is the subject of The Problem of Justice, a richly textured ethnographic study of indigenous peoples struggling to reestablish control over justice in the face of conflicting external and internal pressures
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 240 pages)
ISBN:080320194X
1280374128
9780803201941
9781280374128

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