JUST401 Midterm: Study guide 6
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When a dispute between eskimos developed, a drumming contest would be arranged. The contest would sometimes included head-butting and wrestling. Spectators would ultimately signify which contestants had won the contest in the sense of getting the better of, or shaming, the other contestant. The loser might be exiled, or some form of reconciliation might occur. Treaties are agreements that were held between american indians and the white society. The problem that these treaties were not really understood by the. Indian reservations into private holdings, with the principal objective being integration of indians into larger society and assurance that non-indians would not be subjected to control by indians. Common law is a system in which the judge finds the law. In the sense that law incorporates marxist, socialist, or revolutionary principles. Traditional view, it deals with the sense that the indigenous legal norms and traditions of a country have not been abolished but have been incorporated into a new regime.
