Navajo Courts and Navajo Common Law

The Navajo Nation courts use ancient Diné (Navajo) customs and traditions or Navajo common law to decide cases. While the concepts called Navajo common law are free-flowing, communal, and egalitarian, the forum where they are used, the Navajo Nation court, is adversarial and uses adopted American co...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Austin, Raymond D.
Other Authors: Williams Jr., Robert A.
Language:EN
Published: The University of Arizona. 2007
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10150/196081