Indigenous Law / Indigenous Legal Traditions

The following resources are stories/narratives that have been reviewed/used by ILRU to draw out legal principles from.  See the Legal Orders and Oral Traditions and Traditional Stories by Nation pages for more resources. 

• “Murray”
• “Shih Gwandak (Young Man and Grizzly Bear)”
• “Dinjii Dee Ehdanh Ts’alvit hah (Blind Man and the Loon)”
• “K’aiiheenjik—Willow Man”
• “Ts’ałvit Deetrù’ hah (Loon and Crow)”
• “Albert Johnson, the Mad Trapper”
• “Ch’iteehaakwaii and the Wolverines”
• “Ch’ataiiyuukaih (Paddled a Different Route)”
• “War with Ch’ineekaii: Daachilti’ and Hanadaandaii”
• “Experiences with Early Traders”
• “How a Smart Shanaghàn Saved People Who Were Starving”
• “Two Shanaghan and Nanaa’in’ at a Fish Trap”
• “Story of Tr’iinjoo Vigwizhi’ Goonlii (smart woman) and Nanaa’in’ (bushman)”
• “Kò’ Ehndanh—Man Without Fire, told by Sarah Abel, Moses Tizya, and Myra Moses”
• “Daatsoo, Trùh hah (Mouse and Otter)”
• “Chyaa Zree Zhit Dhidii (Boy in the Moon)”

• “Fetching Summer” p.69
• “Ki’kwa’ju and Ki’kwa’jusi’s”
• “Kopit Feeds the Hunter” p.72
• “Mikmwesu” p.204
• “Miskwekepu’j” p.155
• “Muini’skw and Pkmk” p.160
• “Nuji-Kesi-Kno’tasit” p.93
• “Plawej” p.134