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Indigenous Law / Indigenous Legal Traditions

This guide looks at Indigenous legal traditions created by Indigenous legal orders.

Selected Resources on Gitxsan Legal Orders

Ayook: Gitksan Legal Order, Law, and Legal Theory by Val Napoleon
Call Number: Electronic
Publication Date: 2009
Between Consenting Peoples: Political Community and the Meaning of Consent by Jeremy Webber & Colin M. Macleod
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Call Number: JC328.2 B465 2010
ISBN: 9780774818834
Publication Date: 2010
See Chapter 2: "Challenges of consent in indigenous contexts. Living together : Gitksan legal reasoning as a foundation for consent" by Val Napoleon.
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The Spirit in the land : the opening statement of the Gitksan and Wet'suwet'en hereditary chiefs in the Supreme Court of British Columbia.
Call Number: E78 B9S725
Publication Date: 1989
Gathering what the great nature provided : food traditions of the Gitksan by Hilary Stewart
Call Number: McPherson E99 K55G37
Publication Date: 1980
Tribal boundaries in the Nass watershed by Neil J. Sterritt et al
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Call Number: Law Library KID4416.4 T75 1998
ISBN: 0774806605
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Histories, territories and laws of the Kitwancool by Wilson Duff
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Call Number: Law Reserve KID1964 H57 1960 or E78 B9A6 no. 4
Publication Date: 1959
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For future generations : reconciling Gitx̲san and Canadian law by P. Dawn Mills
Call Number: KID1951 M557 2008
ISBN: 1895830346
Publication Date: 2008
Our Box Was Full: An Ethnography for the Delgamuukw Plantiffs by Richard Daly
Call Number: E99 K55D34 2005
Publication Date: 2005
The Gitksan potlatch : population flux, resource ownership and reciprocity by John W. Adams
Call Number: E99 K55A32 1973
Publication Date: 1973
The tradition continues : monumental sculpture in the Gitanyow and Gitxsan territories 1986-1996, 2nd ed by Harold J.T. Demetzer, Simogyet Delgamuukw - Earl Muldon, Simogyet Yoopx - Elmer Derrick.
Call Number: E98 T65D46 2011
Publication Date: 2011

ILRU Case Note: Human Rights in Indigenous (Gitxsan) Law
Limxhl Hlgu Wo’omhlxw: Song of the Newborn: Knowledge and Stories Surrounding Pregnancy, Childbirth, and the Newborn: A Collaborative Language Project
An MA thesis in linguistics by Catherine Dworak

Selected Oral Traditions and Narratives

Mapping My Way Home: A Gitxsan History by Neil J. Sterritt
Call Number: Law Reserve KID1952 S74 2016
Publication Date: 2016
Returning the feathers : five Gitxsan stories by M. Jane Smith/Xsiwis
Call Number: McPherson 398.2 S565
Publication Date: 2004
Visitors who never left : the origin of the people of Damelahamid by translated and arranged by Chief Kenneth B. Harris in collaboration with Frances M.P. Robinson.
Call Number: McPherson E99 G58H3
Publication Date: 1974
Shamanic voices : a survey of visionary narratives by Joan Halifax
Call Number: BL2370 S5H252
Publication Date: 1979
See chapter by Isaac Tens : North America/Gitksan. Singing into life.

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