Elder Brother and the Law of the People: Contemporary Kinship and Cowessess First Nation (Critical Studies in Native History, 17) - Innes, Robert Alexander

Clean, tight, unmarked; absolute minimal wear; appears unread; In this book, Innes offers a detailed analysis of the rold of Elder Brother stories in historical and contemporary kinship practices in Cowessess First Nation, located in southeastern Saskatchewan. He reveals how these tradition-inspired practices act to undermine legal and scholarly definitions of "Indian" and counter the perception that First Nations people have internalized such classifications. He presents Cowessess's successful negotiation of the 1996 Treaty Land Entitlement agreement and their high inclusion rate of new "Bill-C31s" as evidence of the persistence of historical kinship values and their continuing role as the central unifying factor for band membership.

Near Fine
Soft cover
University of Manitoba Press
2013
Winnipeg, MB