ANTH 222 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Indian Act, SΓ‘mi Politics, Manitoba Hydro
17 Mar 2016
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Legal pluralism exists oten in setler states between setler systems and indigenous systems. Canada, for example, has this between first naions and euro-canadian government. In this case, the setler powers atempted to incorporate or exinguish first. Naions idenity in order to eliminate various forms of pluralism (e. g. ethnic, legal, cultural) This was done via the indian act and residenial school system. According to glenn, legal pluralism exists when we acknowledge that western legal systems a tradiional system, and are able to situate beside rather than above other legal systems. The un declaraion on the rights of indigenous people (undrip) insists that indigenous people have the right of self determinaion. Many states hate this, because it allows for autonomous units within their borders. An example of this being implemented to promote legal pluralism is the norwegian. Given limited power to make policy in regards to cultural maters within the.
