Subject
Grade
Concept/Content
indigenous legal orders and traditional laws in Canada and other global jurisdictions
Elaboration
- Sample topics:
- Tlicho Nation laws in place names
- Gitksan oral histories and traditions
- Gitksan decentralized decision making
- alternative dispute resolution processes, including restorative justice
- historical relationships between peoples as a basis to negotiate treaty boundaries
- Cree reciprocal legal responsibilities and obligations within kinship networks
- Tsimshian injury law and patriarchal resolution
- matrilineal and patrilineal kinship networks
keywords
indigenous legal orders and traditional laws in Canada and other global jurisdictions