Böcker av Bruce Granville Miller

Witness to the Human Rights Tribunals offers a behind-the-scenes account of the difficulties facing Indigenous people in human rights tribunals, and the struggles of experts to keep their own testimony from being undermined.

This compelling analysis of Aboriginal, legal, and anthropological concepts of fact and evidence argues for the inclusion of Aboriginal oral histories in Canadian courts, and pushes for a reconsideration of the Crown's approach to oral history.

For the indigenous peoples of North America, history of colonialism has often meant a distortion of history, even, in some cases, a loss or distorted sense of their Native practices of justice. This book offers a study of indigenous peoples struggling to re-establish control over justice in the face of conflicting external and internal pressures.

Over the years, as indigenous peoples have increasingly sought out and sometimes demanded sovereignty on a variety of fronts, their relationships with encompassing nation-states have become ever more complicated and troubled. This work highlights a common challenge facing indigenous peoples across the globe in the twenty-first century.