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Transsystemic Property Law - LAW 107I

This guide is for students in LAW 107I Transsystemic Property Law

Gitxsan Property Law

Mapping My Way Home: A Gitxsan History by Neil J. Sterritt
Call Number: Law Reserve KID1952 S74 2016
Publication Date: 2016
Our Box Was Full: An Ethnography for the Delgamuukw Plantiffs by Richard Daly
Call Number: E99 K55D34 2005
Publication Date: 2005
The Spirit in the Land: The Opening Statement of the Gitksan and Wet'suwet'en Hereditary Chiefs in the Supreme Court of British Columbia by Gisday Wa
Call Number: KF8208 W3
Publication Date: 1989
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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Colonialism on trial : indigenous land rights and the Gitksan Wet'suwet'en sovereignty case by Don Monet and Skanu'u (Ardythe Wilson)
Call Number: KF8208 M65
Publication Date: 1991
Potlatch at Gitsegukla: William Beynon's 1945 notebooks by William Beynon
Call Number: ELECTRONIC
Publication Date: 2000
The Gitksan potlatch : population flux, resource ownership and reciprocity by John W. Adams
Call Number: E99 K55A32 1973
Publication Date: 1973

Delgamuukw Trial Transcripts
These are the transcripts of evidence and argument presented in Delgamuukw v British Columbia [1997] 3 SCR 1010

Gitxsan Law

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
Call Number: JC328.2 B465 2010
Publication Date: 2010
See "Challenges of consent in indigenous contexts. Living together : Gitksan legal reasoning as a foundation for consent" by Val Napoleon.
Intercultural Dispute Resolution in Aboriginal Contexts by Catherine Bell & Robert K. Paterson
Call Number: K2390 I57 2004
Publication Date: 2004
See Chapter 11: "Who Gets to Say What Happened? Reconciliation Issues for the Gitxsan" by Val Napoleon
New Histories for Old: Changing Perspectives on Canada's Native Pasts by Ted Binnema and Susan Neylan (editors)
Call Number: Electronic
Publication Date: 2007
See chapter 10 "Gitxsan Law and Settler Disorder: The Skeena "Uprising" of 1888" by R.M. Galois
Trail of story, traveller's path : reflections on ethnoecology and landscape by Leslie Main Johnson
Call Number: Electronic
Publication Date: 2010
For Future Generations: Reconciling Gitxsan and Canadian Law by Patricia Mills
Call Number: KID1951 M557 2008
ISBN: 9781895830347
Publication Date: 2008

Human Rights in Indigenous (Gitxsan) Law
A case report from the Indigenous Legal Research Unit (ILRU)
Gitxsanimx Speller
This source provides a searchable glossary of English and Gitxsan terms using the style of transliteration most commonly used today.

Ha'niimag̲ooansxwhum algax̲hl Gitksen ~ Gitksan : Gitxsenimx̲ ~ Gitxsanimax̲ to English dictionary learner's edition, volume 1 by Arthur Mathews Jr & Vere Wale
Call Number: Special Collection PM1541 Z5H36 1995
Publication Date: 1995

Gitanyow Hereditary Chiefs
The website of the Gitanyow Hereditary Chiefs Office.
Nisga'a Lisims Government
Website of the Nisga'a Lisims Government.
Gitxsan Nation
Website of the Gitxsan Nation.

Indigenous Property Law

Coast Salish Senses of Place: Dwelling, Meaning, Power, Property and Territory in the Coast Salish World by Brian David Thom
Call Number: Electronic
Publication Date: 2005
Protection of First Nations Cultural Heritage: Laws, Policy and Reform by Catherine Bell & Robert K. Paterson
Call Number: Electronic
ISBN: 9780774814638
Publication Date: 2009
See "Looking beyond the law : questions about indigenous people's tangible and intangible property" by Val Napoleon
Despotic Dominion: Property Rights in British Settler Societies by John McLarin, A.R. Buck, & Nancy E. Wright
Call Number: Electronic
Publication Date: 2004
See "Encountering the Spirit in the Land: ‘Property’ in a Kinship-Based Legal Order" by Richard Overstall
Creating Indigenous Property: Power, Rights, and Relationships by Angela Cameron, Sari Graben, and Val Napoleon (editors)
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Call Number: KIB496 C74 2020
ISBN: 9781487505455
Publication Date: 2020
Ebook available - click on the blue book icon.
A Toolkit for On-Reserve Matrimonial Real Property Dispute Resolution by Hadley Friedland, Jessica Asch, & Val Napoleon
Call Number: Electronic
Publication Date: 2015
Property Rights, Indigenous People and the Developing World: Issues from Aboriginal Entitlement to Intellectual Ownership Rights by David Lea
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Call Number: K3248 L36L43 2008
Publication Date: 2008
Ebook available - click on the blue book icon.

Secwépemc: Lands and Resources Law Project
A report by ILRU.
Secwepemc Legal Summary
A summary of the legal principles in the Secwepemc Report.

Eagle Down in Our Law: Witsuwit'en Law, Feasts, and Land Claims by Antonia Mills
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Call Number: KID7511 M54 1994
ISBN: 0774805137
Publication Date: 1994
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