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Tapwetamowin: Cree Spirituality and Law for Self-Governance

This doctoral thesis explores the uniqueness of Cree spirituality and law, based in part on oral histories and on Euro-Canadian literal evidence, specifically the multi-volumes of the Jesuit Relations and the thousands of Hudson’s Bay Company manuscripts that re-enforce insights into this Aboriginal governing system. Taken together, the oral and literal primary evidences will define how spirituality and law pre-existed colonisation and are manifested within self-governing institutions currently pursued by First Nations. The purpose is to understand better Cree spirituality and law as captured in Cree self-government models. This Aboriginal legal history contains and studies a plan of action for future self-governance based on inherent Aboriginal legal traditions and jurisprudence.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:MANITOBA/oai:mspace.lib.umanitoba.ca:1993/30319
Date January 2014
CreatorsWastesicoot, Jennie
ContributorsGuth, DeLloyd J. (Law), Oakes, Jill (Environment and Geography) Mercredi, Ovide (Native Studies) Borrows, John, (Law, University of Victoria)
PublisherJCharlton Publishing Ltd.
Source SetsUniversity of Manitoba Canada
Detected LanguageEnglish

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