Legal orders of the indigenous peoples of the Americas, Australia and New Zealand, including the Maori system of tikanga, the Cree principle of kinship law, the Gitxsan and Wetsuwet'en house territory system, Aboriginal Australian customary law and the status of Indian country in the United States. A legal system belongs here when its cited article describes a legal order of an indigenous people in those regions. It excludes customary law of Africa, Asia and Europe.
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Indian country (Wikipedia)
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Indian country is any of the self-governing Native American or American Indian communities throughout the United States. Colloquially, this refers to lands governed by federally recognized tribes and state recognized tribes. The concept of tribal sovereignty legally recognizes tribes as distinct, independent nations within the United States.
Indigenous Australian customary law (Wikipedia)
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Indigenous Australian customary law or Indigenous Australian customary lore refers to the legal systems and practices uniquely belonging to Indigenous Australians of Australia, that is, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.
Keyoh (Wikipedia)
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It refers to a traditional Indigenous land governance system practiced by the central and southern Carrier peoples in the interior of British Columbia, Canada.
Tikanga Maori (Wikipedia)
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Tikanga is a Māori term for practices, customary law, attitudes and principles.
Wahkohtowin (Wikipedia)
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Its literal meaning is "kinship", but it is often used to refer to Cree law, or Cree codes of conduct.
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