Eagle Down Is Our Law
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Eagle Down Is Our Law
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Author : Antonia Curtze Mills
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1994
Eagle Down Is Our Law written by Antonia Curtze Mills and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994 with Gitxsan Indians categories.
Eagle Down Is Our Law
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Author : Antonia Mills
language : en
Publisher: UBC Press
Release Date : 2011-11-01
Eagle Down Is Our Law written by Antonia Mills and has been published by UBC Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-11-01 with Social Science categories.
Eagle Down Is Our Law is about the struggle of the Witsuwit'en peoples to establish the meaning of aboriginal rights. With the neighbouring Gitksan, the Witsuwit'en launched a major land claims court case asking for the ownership and jurisdiction of 55,000 square kilometers of land in north-central British Columbia that they claim to have held since before the arrival of the Europeans. In conjunction with that court case, the Gitksan and Witsuwit'en asked a number of expert witnesses, among them Antonia Mills, an anthropologist, to prepare reports on their behalf. Her report, which instructs the judge in the case on the laws, feasts, and institutions of the Witsuwit'en, is presented here. Her testimony is based on two years of participant observation with the Witsuwit'en peoples and on her reading of the anthropological, historic, archaeological, and linguistic data about the Witsuwit'en.
The Future Of Tradition
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Author : Leon Shaskolsky Sheleff
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2013-09-05
The Future Of Tradition written by Leon Shaskolsky Sheleff and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-09-05 with History categories.
Recent years have seen an increased interest in the variety of cultures co-existing within one state, and a growing acknowledgement of the values ensconced in pluralistic social structures. this book examines the manner in which indigenous people can function in modern states, preserving their traditional customs, while simultaneously adapting aspects of their culture to the challenges posed by modern life. Whereas it was formerly assumed that these tribal frameworks were doomed to extinction, and some states even encouraged such a process, there has been a revival in their vitality, linked to a recognition of their rights. The book offers a comprehensive survey of various aspects of tribal life, focusing on political issues such as the meaning of sovereignty, legal issues dealing with the role of custom and social issues concerned with sustaining communal life. A focused study is made of a whole series of legal factors, relating to possession and ownership of land, religious rites, the nature of polygamous marriages, the assertion of group rites, the manner of peacefully resolving disputes and allied questions. Recent judicial decisions are analysed as a reflection of the far-reaching changes that have taken place, in a process that has seen the former disregard of basic rights of indigenous people being replaced by an awareness of the injustices perpetrated in the past and a willingness to seek to redress them. The comparison between approaches of different English-speaking countries provides an account of interwoven developments.
Unsettling The Settler Within
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Author : Paulette Regan
language : en
Publisher: UBC Press
Release Date : 2010-12-22
Unsettling The Settler Within written by Paulette Regan and has been published by UBC Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-12-22 with Social Science categories.
In 2008 the Canadian government apologized to the victims of the notorious Indian residential school system, and established a Truth and Reconciliation Commission whose goal was to mend the deep rifts between Aboriginal peoples and the settler society that engineered the system. Unsettling the Settler Within argues that in order to truly participate in the transformative possibilities of reconciliation, non-Aboriginal Canadians must undergo their own process of decolonization. They must relinquish the persistent myth of themselves as peacemakers and acknowledge the destructive legacy of a society that has stubbornly ignored and devalued Indigenous experience. Today’s truth and reconciliation processes must make space for an Indigenous historical counter-narrative in order to avoid perpetuating a colonial relationship between Aboriginal and settler peoples. A compassionate call to action, this powerful book offers all Canadians – both Indigenous and not – a new way of approaching the critical task of healing the wounds left by the residential school system.
Canada S Indigenous Constitution
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Author : John Borrows
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2010
Canada S Indigenous Constitution written by John Borrows and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with Autochtones categories.
With characteristic richness and eloquence, John Borrows explores legal traditions, the role of governments and courts, and the prospect of a multi-juridical legal culture, all with a view to understanding and improving legal processes in Canada. He discusses the place of individuals, families, and communities in recovering and extending the role of Indigenous law within both Indigenous communities and Canadian society more broadly."--Pub. desc.
The Canadian Journal Of Law And Jurisprudence
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2000
The Canadian Journal Of Law And Jurisprudence written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with Jurisprudence categories.
Eagle Down
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Author : Jessica Donati
language : en
Publisher: Public Affairs
Release Date : 2022-05-03
Eagle Down written by Jessica Donati and has been published by Public Affairs this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-05-03 with categories.
A Wall Street Journal national security reporter takes readers into the lives of U.S. Special Forces on the front lines against the Taliban and Islamic State, where a new and covert war is keeping Afghanistan from collapse. "Powerful, important, and searing." --General David Petraeus, U.S. Army (ret.), former commander, U.S. Central Command, former CIA director In 2015, the White House claimed triumphantly "the longest war in American history is over." But for some, it was just the beginning of a new and covert war, fought far from public view, with limited resources, little governmental oversight, and contradictory orders. Take Hutch, a battle-worn Green Beret on his fifth combat tour in 2015, tasked with a high-stakes mission: lead a small band of men into Kunduz, recapture the city from the Taliban, and turn it over to the Afghan government. The U.S. role was meant to be a secret-after all, the war was over. Then, disaster struck. He called in an airstrike on a Doctors Without Borders hospital, killing dozens of doctors and patients. Or Caleb, who stepped on a bomb during a raid on a Taliban hideout in notorious Sangin. Or Andy, trapped in Marjah with a crashed Black Hawk and no air support. From Hutch to Caleb to Andy, Eagle Down is a dramatic and intimate portrayal of this ongoing forgotten war that moves from the desperate battlegrounds in muddy Afghan villages all the way to the White House. Pulitzer Prize Finalist Jessica Donati, with big picture insight and on-the-ground grit, reveals how America came to rely on U.S. Special Forces, through successive policy directives that ramped up the war under the Obama and Trump administrations. Donati argues the covert war is failing to stabilize Afghanistan, and without a long-term plan, is undermining U.S. interests both at home and abroad. Relying on Donati's daring on-the-ground reporting, first-hand accounts from Special Forces, military documents, and declassified reports, Eagle Down is an account of the heroism, sacrifice, and tragedy experienced by those that continue to fight America's longest war.
The Gale Encyclopedia Of Native American Tribes
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1998
The Gale Encyclopedia Of Native American Tribes written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with Indians of North America categories.
Endangered Peoples Of North America
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Author : Tom Greaves
language : en
Publisher: Greenwood
Release Date : 2002
Endangered Peoples Of North America written by Tom Greaves and has been published by Greenwood this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with Social Science categories.
Surveys the threats to and responses of tribal and ethnic groups in the United States and Canada.
Sovereignty Matters
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Author : Joanne Barker
language : en
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Release Date : 2005
Sovereignty Matters written by Joanne Barker and has been published by U of Nebraska Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with History categories.
Sovereignty Matters investigates the multiple perspectives that exist within indigenous communities regarding the significance of sovereignty as a category of intellectual, political, and cultural work. Much scholarship to date has treated sovereignty in geographical and political matters solely in terms of relationships between indigenous groups and their colonial states or with a bias toward American contexts. This groundbreaking anthology of essays by indigenous peoples from the Americas and the Pacific offers multiple perspectives on the significance of sovereignty. The noted Mohawk scholar Taiaiake Alfred provides a landmark essay on the philosophical foundations of sovereignty and the need for the decolonization of indigenous thinking about governance. Other essays explore the role of sovereignty in fueling cultural memory, theories of history and change, spiritual connections to the land, language revitalization, and repatriation efforts. These topics are examined in varied yet related contexts of indigenous struggles for self-determination, including those of the Chamorro of Guam, the Taíno of Puerto Rico, the Quechua of the Andes, the Mäori of New Zealand (Aotearoa), the Samoan Islanders, and the Kanaka Maoli and the Makah of the United States. Several essays also consider the politics of identity and identification. Sovereignty Matters emphasizes the relatedness of indigenous peoples' experiences of genocide, dispossession, and assimilation as well as the multiplicity of indigenous political and cultural agendas and perspectives regarding sovereignty. Joanne Barker (Lenape) is an assistant professor of American Indian studies at San Francisco State University. Her work has appeared in Cultural Studies, Wicazo Sa Review, Inscriptions, and This Bridge We Call Home: Radical Visions for Transformation.