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Eagle down is our law : the Witsuwit'en law, feasts, and land claims / Antonia Mills.
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Title:Eagle down is our law : the Witsuwit'en law, feasts, and land claims / Antonia Mills.
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Author/Creator:Mills, Antonia Curtze.
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Published/Created:Vancouver : UBC Press, 1994.
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Call Number: E99.K55 M54 1994
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Call Number: E99.K55 M54 1994
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Canadian Subjects: Wet'suwet'en Indians--Social life and customs.
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Library of Congress Subjects:Gitksan Indians--Land tenure.
Wet'suwet'en Indians--Land tenure.
Indians of North America--British Columbia--Land tenure.
Gitksan Indians--Claims.
Wet'suwet'en Indians--Claims.
Indians of North America--British Columbia--Claims.
Gitksan Indians--Social life and customs.
Wet'suwet'en Indians--Social life and customs.
Indians of North America--British Columbia--Social life and customs.
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Description:xx, 208 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
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Summary:Eagle down is our law is about the struggle of the Witsuwit'en peoples to establish the meaning of aboriginal rights. With the neighbouring Gitskan, the Witsuwit'en launched a major land claims court case asking for the ownership and jurisdiction of 55,000 square kilometres of land in north-central British Columbia that they claim to have held since before the arrival of the Europeans. In conjunction with that court case, the Gitskan and Witsuwit'en asked a number of expert witnesses, among them Antonia Mills, an anthropologist, to prepare reports on their behalf. Her report, which instructs the judge in the case on the laws, feasts, and institutions of the Witsuwit'en, is presented here. Her testimony is based on two years of participant observation with the Witsuwit'en peoples and on her reading of the anthropological, historic, archaeological, and linguistic data about the Witsuwit'en. -- from jacket.
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Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
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ISBN:0774804971 (bound) :
0774805137 (pbk.) :
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Contents:Foreword / Gisdaywa (Alfred Joseph)
Foreword / Mas Gak (Don Ryan)
Preface / Michael Kew
Preface / Michael Jackson
1. Nature of Witsuwit'en Society
2. Nature and Function of the Witsuwit'en Feast
3. Genesis of the Witsuwit'en
4. Witsuwit'en Institutions
5. Witsuwit'en Law
6. Witsuwit'en Interface with the World.