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 of Natural History; Distributed by Yale University P