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First Nations Cultural Heritage and Law

Case Studies, Voices, and Perspectives

edited by Catherine Bell & Val Napoleon

Publisher
UBC Press
Initial publish date
Jan 2009
Subjects
Indigenous Peoples, Cultural, Native American, General
Categories
About indigenous people or experiences
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9780774858465
    Publish Date
    Jan 2009
    List Price
    $125.00

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Description

First Nations Cultural Heritage and Law explores First Nations perspectives on cultural heritage and issues of reform within and beyond Western law. Written in collaboration with First Nation partners, it contains seven case studies featuring indigenous concepts, legal orders, and encounters with legislation and negotiations; a national review essay; three chapters reflecting on major themes; and a self-reflective critique on the challenges of collaborative and intercultural research. Although the volume draws on specific First Nation experiences, it covers a wide range of topics of concern to Inuit, Metis, and other indigenous peoples.

About the authors

Catherine Bell's profile page

Val Napoleon is a professor, the director of the Indigenous Law Research Unit, and the Law Foundation Chair of Indigenous Justice and Governance in the Faculty of Law at the University of Victoria.

Val Napoleon's profile page

Editorial Reviews

The essays in these two volumes [First Nations Cultural Heritage and Law and Protection of First Nations Cultural Heritage] invoke national, international, and First Nations customary law as a channel for reversing and providing redress for a major effect of colonialism. They gather substantial information around this theme in a discourse of advocacy, providing a strong focus for discussion but leaving to one side significant issues that are likely to require nuanced consideration when specific questions concerning particular aspects of heritage require resolution.

Museum Anthropology, Vol. 34, Issue. 1, 2011

Librarian Reviews

First Nations Cultural Heritage and Law: Case Studies, Voices, and Perspectives

This book contains case studies related to the protection, repatriation and control of Canadian First Nations’ cultural heritage. This collaborative investigation involved Aboriginal partners from BC, Alberta and Saskatchewan as well as scholars in law, anthropology and archaeology. Presented are views, first-hand accounts and oral history from a variety of Aboriginal peoples. Insights are given about the importance of the potlatch and residential school issues. The topics of language loss and its reacquisition are presented. Aboriginal participants identify, define and articulate their own concepts, laws and experiences related to the three areas investigated in this book, leading to greater appreciation of, respect for and protection of their varied cultures.

Source: The Association of Book Publishers of BC. Canadian Aboriginal Books for Schools. 2009-2010.