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Transsystemic Business Associations LAW 315I

This guide is here to support students in LAW 315I Transsystemic Business Associations, which includes Canadian and Indigenous law, specifically Secwépemc, Cree/Nêhiyaw and Stó:lō legal orders.

Selected Secwépemc Legal Order resources

Secwépemc lands and resources Law Research Project by Jessica Asch, Kirsty Broadhead, Georgia Lloyd-Smith, Simon Owen
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Call Number: KID7 S58A84 2016
Publication Date: 2016
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SECWEPEMC Lands and Resources Law Analysis Project Summary

Secwépemc people, land, and laws = Yerí7 re Stsq̓ey̓s-kucw by Marianne Ignace and Ronald E. Ignace ; with contributions by Mike K. Rousseau, Nancy J. Turner, Kenneth Favrholdt, and many Secweìpemc storytellers, past and present
Call Number: KID6792 I46 2017
ISBN: 9780773551305
Publication Date: 2017
Maps of experience [electronic resource] : the anchoring of land to story in Secwepemc discourse by Andie Diane Palmer
Call Number: Electronic
ISBN: 0802035590
Publication Date: 2005

Stsqey’ulécw Re St'exelcemc (St’exelemc Laws from the Land)
Nancy Sandy, (2016) 33:1 Windsor Yearbook of Access to Justice.
Secwepemc Territorial Authority – Honoring Ownership of Tangible / Intangible Culture
The resource page for the community initiative with the IPinCH (Intellectual Property Issues in Cultural Heritage: Theory, Practice, Policy, Ethics).

Selected Resources on Stó:lō Legal Orders

Feed the people and you will never go hungry: Illuminating Coast Salish economy of affection
Dara Kelly, University of Auckland, 2017 PhD Thesis
Sq’éwlets: A Stó: lo-Coast Salish Community in the Fraser River Valley Virtual Museum

You are asked to witness : the Stó:lō in Canada's Pacific Coast history by Keith Thor Carlson (editor)
Call Number: E99 S72Y68
Publication Date: 1997
A Stó:lō-Coast Salish historical atlas by Keith Thor Carlson, Colin Duffield, Albert (Sonny) McHalsie, Leanna Lynn Rhodes, David M. Schaepe, and David A. Smith
Call Number: G1171 E1S86 2001. Atlas Stand.
ISBN: 1550548123
Publication Date: 2001
Brushed by cedar, living by the river : Coast Salish figures of power by Crisca Bierwert
Call Number: E99 S21B54
ISBN: 0816519196
Publication Date: 1999
Being Ts'elxwéyeqw : First Peoples' voices and history from the Chilliwack-Fraser Valley, British Columbia by David M. Schaepe (editor)
Call Number: KID40 B425 2017
ISBN: 9781550178180
Publication Date: 2017
Towards a new ethnohistory : community-engaged scholarship among the People of the River by Keith Thor Carlson, John Sutton Lutz, David M. Schaepe, Naxaxalhts'i (Albert "Sonny" McHalsie) (editors)
Call Number: Electronic
ISBN: 9780887555497
Publication Date: 2018

Stó:lō Resource and Management Centre
Stó:lō Xwexwilmexw Treaty Association
Includes their constitution, self-governance structure, and explanation of their treaty.
Bringing the Good Feelings Back: Imagining Stó:lō Justice
Cindy Leanne McMullen. University of British Columbia, (1998) MA thesis.
Law's Hidden Canvas: Teasing Out the Threads of Coast Salish Legal Sensibility
Andrée Boisselle, University of Victoria, 2011 LLM thesis.

Selected Resources on Cree/Nêhiyaw Legal Orders

Cree Economic Relationships, Governance, and Critical Indigenous Political Economy in Resistance to Settler-Colonial Logics
Shalene M C Jobin, University of Manitoba 2015 PhD thesis
Cree Peoplehood, International Trade, and Diplomacy
by Shalene Jobin (2013) 43:2 Revue Generale de Droit
Identity and Adaptation to Community and Economic Change Among the Southend Cree
Dale P. Reid, University of Saskatchewan 1984 MA Thesis.

A homeland for the Cree : regional development in James Bay, 1971-1981 by Richard F. Salisbury
Call Number: E99 C88S35
ISBN: 0773505512
Publication Date: 1986

Indigenous Legal Orders

Ethical Indigenous Economies
Dara Kelly & Christine Woods, (2021) 7:1 Engaged Scholar Journal.

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
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Living rhythms : lessons in aboriginal economic resilience and vision by Wanda Wuttunee
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Call Number: E78 C2W982
ISBN: 0773527540
Publication Date: 2004
Available as an ebook - click on the blue book icon.
Making a living : place, food, and economy in an Inuit community by Nicole Gombay
Call Number: McPherson E99 E7G64 2010
ISBN: 9781895830590
Publication Date: 2010
The Social economy of sharing : resource allocation and modern hunter-gatherers by George W. Wenzel, Grete Hovelsrud-Broda, Nobuhiro Kishigami (editors)
Call Number: McPherson GN303 S47 no. 53
Publication Date: 2000

Canadian Council for Aboriginal Business
Canadian Council for Aboriginal Business - Publications
Cash Back: A Yellowhead Institute Red Paper (May 2021)
Dene Women in the Traditional and Modern Northern Economy in Denendeh, Northwest Territories, Canada
Phoebe Nahanni, McGill University, 1992 MA thesis

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