Nature's Law - Homepage

• Spiritual Life
  • Introduction
  • Beliefs - Natural/Supernatural
  • Spirit Realm
    • Animal Spirits
• Governance
  • Governmental Law
    • Secret Societies
  • Territorial Law
    • Treaties
    • Relation to the Land
    • Sacred Sites
    • Environmental Conservation
  • Self Governance
  • Featured Article: Report on Valentin Végreville’s Monograph of the Cree
• Culture
  • Relational Law
    • Applying Relational Law
    • Kinship Systems
    • Family Responsibilities
      • Who May One Marry
      • Family Definition
      • Customs of courtship
      • Residence
      • Rules of Separation
      • Sexual and Gender Relations
      • Marriage Patterns
      • Women's Roles and Rights
      • Bands and Communities
    • Respect
    • Relationships
    • Kinship Group
    • Understandings of Relations
    • Tsu'u Tina Kinship System
    • Kinship Terms
    • Redress and Judgment
    • Conclusions
    • Sources
  • Personal Law
    • Woman's Power
  • Language and Linguistics
    • Uniqueness of Aboriginal Language
    • Contribution of Language to Worldview
  • Local/Oral Law
    • "Good Medicine"
  • Constitutional Law
    • "Natural Law"
    • Indigenous Peoples
      • Constitutional Rights & Responsibilities
      • Social Reality
      • Rights of Interpretation
      • Origin of Interpretation
      • Exercised as a People
      • Definition of People
      • Great Turtle Island
      • Relationships
      • Equality
      • Survival for All Beings
      • Survival for the People
      • Right to Exist
      • Implications
      • The Land
      • Spirit of the Land
      • Judicial and Fiscal Order
      • Empowering
• Traditions
  • Ritual Law
    •  Ceremony
      • Sacred Pipe
      • Sweatlodge
      • Sun Dance
      • Vision Quest
      • Medicine People
      • Hunting
    • Secrecy
    • Variety of 'Sacred' Moments
    • Dominance of the Pipe
    • Meanings of Sacred Pipe
    • Western Use of Language
    • Personal Responsibility
    • Other Ways of Speaking and Knowing
    • Ritual Law Sources
  • Restitutional Law
    • Tribal Punishment
    • Spiritual Punishment
    • Sentencing Circle
  • Oral History
    • Story Telling
    • Elders as Teachers
    • Power of Words
• Resources
  • Video
  • Related Articles
  • Bibliographies
  • Web Resources
  • Timeline
• Context and Background
  • Understandings Held by Indigenous People
    • Indigenous Worldviews
    • "Natural" & "Supernatural"
      • Resistance to Categorizing Reality
      • The Basis of Law is Relatedness
      • The Intuitive Connection of Law and Landscape
      • Good Law is Good Medicine
      • Social Memory and the Application of Law
      • Indigenous Law and the Meaning of Time
    • Weakness of Codification Strategies in Indigenous Law
    • Applying Western Legal Categories
    • Kinds and Types of Evidence
      • Linguistic Basis
      • Historical Evidence
      • Oral Tradition
        • Orality and Creativity
        • Orality and Ceremonialism
        • Orality and Social Memory
        • Storytelling Teachings
      • European "Authorities"
      • Indigenous Testimony
      • Recent Legal Opinion
  • Categories of Nature's Law
    • Environment Law
  • Making Room For Traditional Indigenous "Justice" In Canada
    • What Is The Goal of "Justice"?
    • The United States Experience
    • Ensuring Space Is Left Open In Canada
    • An Apache Paradigm
    • The Informal System of Justice
    • Customary Law
    • Canada, Too, Has Deep Differences
    • The Indigenous Justice Process
    • The Navajo Approach to Reconciliation
• About
• Contact Us
• Partners
• Sitemap
• Search
• Copyright