The Problem of Justice: Tradition and Law in the Coast Salish World

The Problem of Justice: Tradition and Law in the Coast Salish World

by Bruce Granville Miller
ISBN-10:
0803282753
ISBN-13:
9780803282759
Pub. Date:
09/01/2001
Publisher:
Nebraska
ISBN-10:
0803282753
ISBN-13:
9780803282759
Pub. Date:
09/01/2001
Publisher:
Nebraska
The Problem of Justice: Tradition and Law in the Coast Salish World

The Problem of Justice: Tradition and Law in the Coast Salish World

by Bruce Granville Miller

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Overview

For the indigenous peoples of North America, the history of colonialism has often meant a distortion of history, even, in some cases, a loss or distorted sense of their own native practices of justice. How contemporary native communities have dealt quite differently with this dilemma is the subject of The Problem of Justice, a richly textured ethnographic study of indigenous peoples struggling to reestablish control over justice in the face of conflicting external and internal pressures.

The peoples discussed in this book are the Coast Salish communities along the northwest coast of North America: the Upper Skagit Indian Tribe in Washington State, the Stó:lo Nation in British Columbia, and the South Island Tribal Council on Vancouver Island. Here we see how, despite their common heritage and close ties, each of these communities has taken a different direction in understanding and establishing a system of tribal justice. Describing the results-from the steadily expanding independence and jurisdiction of the Upper Skagit Court to the collapse of the South Island Justice Project-Bruce G. Miller advances an ethnographically informed, comparative, historically based understanding of aboriginal justice and the particular dilemmas tribal leaders and community members face. His work makes a persuasive case for an indigenous sovereignty associated with tribally controlled justice programs that recognize diversity and at the same time allow for internal dissent.

Bruce G. Miller is associate professor in the Department of Anthropology and Sociology at the University of British Columbia.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780803282759
Publisher: Nebraska
Publication date: 09/01/2001
Series: Fourth World Rising
Pages: 240
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author


Bruce G. Miller is associate professor in the Department of Anthropology and Sociology at the University of British Columbia.
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