Nature's Laws are held to shape
Relational Law because of the community's view that the
person is rooted in a large kinship and relational system
that connected to social, cosmic, 'natural' and spiritual
domains. Marriage is deemed to be the social glue that
reflects the basic value system of balance and reciprocity
enshrined in Nature's Laws. Even though different groups
have different ways to affirm this truth, it undergirds all
Indigenous people's social relationships. How the tensions
are solved between persons and groups within the community
depends upon ways that leadership articulates the traditions
and the emphasis that the community itself gives the
process. Regardless of the outcome of the process, everyone
accepts that it is rooted in and reflects Nature's Laws.
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