Nationhood Interrupted: Revitalizing nêhiyaw Legal Systems by McAdam, Sylvia (Saysewahum) - 2015

UBC Press, 2016. Paperback. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Paperback. Very Good.

Saskatoon, SK: Purich Publishing Limited 978-1-895830-80-4 [978-1-895830-80-4] 2015. (Mass market paperback) 138pp. As new. 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..

Saskatoon: Purich Publishing Limited [9781895830804] 2015. (Trade paperback) Very good plus. 118pp. Photographs, illustration, glossary, notes. There is pencil underlining in the text. "nehiyaw (Cree) laws are passed down through oral tradition and land-based use, utilizing stories songs, ceremonies, and other sacred rites. Colonization has dramatically caused the heart-breaking loss of Indigenous languages, customs, and inherent systems. This has necessitated a departure from oral tradition to record and write the physical laws of the nehiyawak. The spiritual laws can never be written down. As a result, this book is the first of its kind". Book about Customs, Indigenous Culture & Language. Locale: Prairie Provinces; Saskatchewan--Canada; Western Canada. (Indians of N.A., Cree Indians, Indians of North America, Indigenous Peoples--Canada, Nehiyaw Nation, Spirituality).

Univ of British Columbia Pr, 2017. Paperback. New. 118 pages. 8.75x5.75x0.25 inches.

Paperback / softback. New. Co-founder of the international movement Idle No More, Sylvia McAdam shares nehiyaw (Cree) laws so that future generations may understand and live by them, revitalizing Indigenous nationhood.