Settlement, Nesting Territories and Conflicting Legal Systems in a Micmac Community

In this groundbreaking book anthropologist Daniel Strouthes studies the development of a legal system by a North American Indian group-a small band of twentieth- and twenty-first-century Micmac in Nova Scotia-and analyzes their inventive land tenure law and territorial responses to settlement. Published by the Yale Department of Anthropology and the Yale Peabody Museum; Distributed by Yale University Press