2005
DOI: 10.7202/010321ar
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How to Read Aboriginal Legal Texts From Upper Canada

Abstract: In this article the author considers the interpretive problems that arise when trying to read legal texts produced by aboriginal communities in mid-nineteenth colonial Canada. Using a code of laws enacted by the Credit River Mississaugas in 1830 as an example, he explores how written aboriginal laws from this time period appear to deviate from today’s judicial notion of aboriginal law as ancient, oral and customary in nature. The author suggests that aboriginal legal texts from the mid-nineteenth century may b… Show more

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“…In addition to Harring, White Man's Law and Miller, Compact, Contract, Covenant, see esp. Walters, ‘Extension of Colonial Criminal Jurisdiction’; Walters, ‘ “According to the Old Customs of Our Nation” ’; Walters, ‘Aboriginal Rights’; Walters, ‘How to Read Aboriginal Legal Texts’; and Walters, ‘ “Your Sovereign and Our Father” ’.…”
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“…In addition to Harring, White Man's Law and Miller, Compact, Contract, Covenant, see esp. Walters, ‘Extension of Colonial Criminal Jurisdiction’; Walters, ‘ “According to the Old Customs of Our Nation” ’; Walters, ‘Aboriginal Rights’; Walters, ‘How to Read Aboriginal Legal Texts’; and Walters, ‘ “Your Sovereign and Our Father” ’.…”
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confidence: 99%