Aboriginal Law & Indigenous Laws

Living Treaties aims to reveal another side of the treaties and their histories, focusing on stories from contemporary perspectives, both Mi'kmaw and their non-Mi'kmaw allies, who have worked with, experienced and indeed lived with the treaties at various times over the last fifty years.

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In 1725-6 the British colonial government of Nova Scotia signed a treaty of friendship and peace with the local Mi'kmaq people. This treaty explicitly acknowledged the co-existence of Mi'kmaq and British law - but much of its meaning stemmed from its complex negotiation, which was influenced by the history of aboriginal-European relations in Acadia prior to 1726.

This book is written from the traditions and perspectives of the Mi’kmaw Nation, one of the nations of the Wabanaki Confederacy, and attempts to unravel the neglected structure and meaning of various trans-Atlantic treaties made between the Confederacy and the British from a trans-systemic perspective that incorporates both Indigenous and British law.

This book covers intellectual history, law, political science, religious studies, and Mi'kmaw legends, oral history and perceptions from the arrival in America by Columbus and other Europeans in the fifteenth century to the Mi'kmaw Concordat in the early seventeenth century.

This two set volume provides a legal history of the development of the Mi’kmaw, Wolastoqey and Passamaquoddy Nations confederation with Great Britain through treaties that established the foundation of Atlantic Canada.