Nationhood Interrupted: Revitaliizing nehiyaw Legal Systems

McAdam (Saysewahum); Sylvia

ISBN 10: 189583080X / ISBN 13: 9781895830804

Published by Purich Publishing Limited 978-1-895830-80-4, Saskatoon, SK

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[978-1-895830-80-4] 2015. (Mass market paperback) As new. 138pp. 8vo. As new. Traditionally, and through customs and knowledge handed down, nehiyaw (Cree) laws are shared through generations of oral stories, songs, ceremonies, lands, waters, animals, land markings, and sacred rites. The loss of language, customs, and traditions is a result of colonization and it is this that is addressed in this first of its kind book. Those laws are shared so with the intention that all people will understand them, live by them, and revitalize Indigenous nationhood. McAdam Saysewahum is a co-founder of the international movement, Idle No More.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Nationhood Interrupted: Revitaliizing nehiyaw Legal Systems
• Publisher: Purich Publishing Limited 978-1-895830-80-4, Saskatoon, SK
• ISBN 10: 189583080X
• ISBN 13: 9781895830804
• Binding: Soft cover
• Seller catalogs:
  • Canadiana

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Synopsis

Traditionally, nêhiyaw (Cree) laws are shared and passed down through oral customs ― stories, songs, ceremonies ― using lands, waters, animals, land markings and other sacred rites. However, the loss of the languages, customs, and traditions of Indigenous peoples as a direct result of colonization has necessitated this departure from the oral tradition to record the physical laws of the nêhiyaw. McAdam, a co-founder of the international movement Idle No More, shares nêhiyaw laws so that future generations, both nêhiyaw and non-Indigenous people, may understand and live by them to revitalize Indigenous nationhood.

About the Author

Sylvia McAdam (Saysewahum) is a citizen of the nêhiyaw Nation, who holds a Juris Doctorate (LL.B) from the University of Saskatchewan and a Bachelor’s of Human Justice (B.H.J) from the University of Regina. She is a recipient of the Carol Geller Human Rights Award, Foreign Policy’s Top 100 Global Thinkers Award, Social Justice Award, 2014 Global Citizen Award, and has received several eagle feathers from Indigenous communities. She remains active in the global grassroots Indigenous led resistance called “Idle No More” (www.idlenomore.ca).