Punishment in Pre-Colonial Indigenous Societies in North America [original paper]

Authors

• Stephen Conn

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Description

Using northern Athabascan villages as examples, the author discusses how punishment in indigenous societies was traditionally interwoven with other societal functions. The influence of alcohol and the western legal process changed post-colonial societies and their methods of punishment because punishment decisions in indigenous societies were traditionally arrived at through group deliberation, whereas the western legal system works in a hierarchical fashion. The author concludes that imposition of western-style decision-making disrupted tradtional law ways in post-colonial society.

Publication Date

5-25-1987

Keywords

Alaska Natives, alcohol & alcohol abuse, bush justice, legal anthropology, rural justice

Recommended Citation

Conn, Stephen, "Punishment in Pre-Colonial Indigenous Societies in North America [original paper]" (1987). Conference papers. 9.
https://scholarworks.alaska.edu/uaa_justice_papers/9

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http://hdl.handle.net/11122/8276