Listening for a Change: The Courts and Oral Tradition
| dc.contributor.author | Borrows, John | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2016-04-20T22:07:01Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2016-04-20T22:07:01Z | |
| dc.date.copyright | 2001 | en_US |
| dc.date.issued | 2001 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Aboriginal oral history is a valuable source of information about a people's past. It can constitute important evidence as proof of prior events, and/or it can shed light on meanings groups give to their past. Despite its value, however, oral tradition presents particular challenges of admissibility and interpretation because of its unique source and transmission. This article outlines and discuses these challenges and suggests various approaches to better understand the insights contained within aboriginal history. | en_US |
| dc.description.reviewstatus | Reviewed | en_US |
| dc.description.scholarlevel | Faculty | en_US |
| dc.identifier.citation | Borrows, J. (2001). Listening for a change: The courts and oral tradition. Osgoode Hall Law Journal, 39(1), 1-38. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://digitalcommons.osgoode.yorku.ca/ohlj/vol39/iss1/1/ | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1828/7147 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
| dc.publisher | Osgoode Hall Law Journal | en_US |
| dc.subject | Indigenous peoples | en_US |
| dc.subject | Canada--History | en_US |
| dc.subject | Admissible evidence | en_US |
| dc.subject | Canada | en_US |
| dc.subject.department | Faculty of Law | |
| dc.title | Listening for a Change: The Courts and Oral Tradition | en_US |
| dc.type | Article | en_US |