Law's hidden canvas: teasing out the threads of Coast Salish legal sensibility

Law's hidden canvas: teasing out the threads of Coast Salish legal sensibility

This dissertation seeks to illuminate key aspects of Coast Salish legal sensibility. It draws on collaborative fieldwork carried out between 2007 and 2010 with Stó:lō communities from the Fraser Valley in southern British Columbia, and on the rich ethnohistorical record produced on, with, and by mem...

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Main Author: Boisselle, Andrée
Other Authors: Webber, Jeremy H. A.
Format: Others
Language:English
en
Published: 2017
Subjects:
Indigenous law
Indigenous law - Coast Salish law - Witnessing
Indigenous legal traditions
Indigenous names
Indigenous spirituality
Indigenous storytelling
Pacific Northwest - Indigenous peoples
Coast Salish legal tradition
Coast Salish longhouse - traditional governance
Sociolinguistics - discourse analysis - pragmatics
Stó:lō legal order
Stó:lō Téméxw
Legal sensibility
Aboriginal title
Kinship
Stó:lō traditional territory
Online Access:https://dspace.library.uvic.ca//handle/1828/8921
Boisselle, Andrée. “To Dignity Through the Back Door: Tsilhqot’in and the Aboriginal Title Test” 2015 71 SCLR 2d 27, online: <http://digitalcommons.osgoode.yorku.ca/sclr/vol71/iss1/2>.
Boisselle, Andrée. “Emerging from Colonial Quicksands: Examining Stó:lō Discourse Around the Experience of Taking on Responsibility for the Delivery of Child and Family Services”, (revised in 2008), online: <http://web.uvic.ca/stolo/pdf/Boiselle_Emerging_from_quicksands_2008.pdf>.

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