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- A Crest Cannot Be Separated From Its History
- A National Council of Elders as keepers and interpreters of Ayaawx
- A living collection of principles and rulings
- Absence From Record Does Not Negate History
- Absence from Record Does Not Negate Adaawk
- Absence from the Codex does not negate law
- Absence of Record Does Not Negate Lawful Witnessing
- Access to records may be guided or limited.
- Access to the Codex may be guided or limited.
- Accountability before witnesses
- Accountability extends beyond the present.
- Accountability for harm
- Accountability is expected from individuals and their houses.
- Accountability to the Wilp
- Accumulate personal wealth
- Accuracy Protects Both Parties and Witnesses
- Accuracy and Restraint Determine Legitimacy
- Accuracy and restraint preserve integrity.
- Act as stewards, not owners
- Action remains grounded in law and restraint.
- Actions must preserve options for those who follow.
- Acts of protection, sacrifice, or consequence
- Adaawk Are Interpreted Through Restraint and Witness
- Adaawk Are Not Altered for Convenience
- Adaawk Are Not Freely Altered
- Adaawk Are Passed Through Teaching and Witness
- Adaawk Carry Law Through Memory and History
- Adaawk Clarify Membership Roles and Obligations
- Adaawk Endure Through Care and Use
- Adaawk Endure Through Use and Care
- Adaawk Establish Rights Obligations and Standing
- Adaawk Establish Standing of a House and Its Leaders
- Adaawk Guide Conduct Within and Beyond the House
- Adaawk Guide Inter House and Inter Tribal Conduct
- Adaawk Guide Interpretation of Ayaawx
- Adaawk Include Origins Names Crests Lands and Events
- Adaawk Inform Decisions Where Written Law Is Insufficient
- Adaawk Inform Rights Obligations and Boundaries
- Adaawk May Be Recorded Orally or in Writing
- Adaawk Preserve Outcomes of Disputes Agreements and Movements
- Adaawk Provide Precedent for Restoration and Responsibility
- Adaawk Record Alliances Disputes and Compensation
- Adaawk Record Events That Shape Law and Relationship
- Adaawk Record Obligations Between Peoples
- Adaawk Support Lawful Engagement Beyond the House
- Adaawk as Legal Memory
- Adaawk that record precedent
- Adaawx as the record of land and title
- Adaawx guide interpretation across generations
- Adaawx guide lawful use and decision-making.
- Adaawx provide legal memory and precedent.
- Adaawx record boundaries, histories, and events tied to laxyuup
- Adaawx record the history of law in practice
- Adherence to Ayaawk
- Adoption, bloodlines, and membership in a house
- Affirming the non-supremacy of foreign constitutional or statutory law over Ayaawx
- Agreements, conflicts, and resolutions
- All violations are assessed through ayaawx
- Amsiiwa – Meaning and Misuse
- Application across all Tsm’syen territories
- Apprenticeship and transfer of knowledge
- Are accountable to their house and clan
- Artistic Use Does Not Override Legal Meaning
- Assembly participation does not dissolve house accountability
- Assembly proceedings require witnessing
- Asserting Tsm’syen national sovereignty and inherent rights
- Authority Arises From Recognition of the Witness Not Position
- Authority Arises from Accuracy Witness and Continuity
- Authority Depends on Correct Recall and Witness
- Authority Does Not Exist Without Corresponding Duty
- Authority Includes Responsibility to Act Correctly
- Authority Is Grounded in Accuracy and Witness
- Authority arises from trust, conduct, and knowledge.
- Authority connected to specific territory
- Authority does not extend beyond lawful scope
- Authority exists only with demonstrated stewardship.
- Authority exists without history
- Authority is exercised in trust, not ownership.
- Authority is exercised through careful speech and silence
- Authority is grounded in ayaawx and recognized governance structures
- Authority is tied to care and accountability.
- Authority may be withdrawn by lawful process
- Authority of Elder women
- Authority of name holders
- Authority over land is governed by ayaawx
- Authority over laxyuup arises from ayaawx.
- Authority over resources arises from ayaawx.
- Authority remains bounded by ayaawx
- Authority without competence cannot produce lawful outcomes
- Avoidance of responsibility prolongs imbalance
- Ayaawk exists before and beyond written form.
- Ayaawk is upheld
- Ayaawk originates in land, relationship, and history.
- Ayaawk remains intact
- Ayaawx
- Ayaawx Laws and Legal Orders Index
- Ayaawx Overview
- Ayaawx and adaawx must be passed intact.
- Ayaawx and adaawx must be taught deliberately
- Ayaawx as the primary jurisdiction of the Tsm’syen Nation
- Ayaawx guides acceptable forms of acknowledgment and repair
- Ayaawx mandates for respectful relations with the environment
- Ayaawx provides the framework of law
- Ayaawx remains the primary legal authority
- Balance as the Measure of Resolution
- Balance is maintained through dialogue and witnessing
- Balance is the measure of resolution.
- Bax Ma’ga – Sending Loved Ones On
- Blackfish, Raven, Eagle, Wolf and other crests
- Bloodlines and Adoption
- Breaks in teaching weaken governance
- Carry crests temporarily
- Ceremonial settlement and agreement
- Ceremony
- Chart test
- Citation does not confer authority to reinterpret
- Citation does not confer interpretive authority
- Clan and Nation law govern shared or overlapping lands
- Clan or Nation law governs shared resources.
- Clans may hold jurisdiction in inter-house matters.
- Clear jurisdiction protects the integrity of law
- Clear naming protects law.
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- Climate Change Impacts
- Collective defense of law and land is organized
- Collective responsibility reinforces accountability
- Colonial Drift and New “Made-Up Laws”
- Colonial Influences on Regalia
- Communication prevents fragmentation or contradiction.
- Communities may refuse unlawful direction
- Communities retain authority over local matters
- Community authority is not erased by Nation-level coordination
- Community governance operates within broader Nation law.
- Community reflections and clarifications
- Comparison does not imply equivalence
- Compensation
- Compensation and repair are addressed at the house level
- Competence is determined by knowledge, authority, and relationship
- Competence requires understanding of the law being applied
- Competent Jurisdiction
- Completion of restoration restores standing between parties
- Completion restores standing where possible.
- Conduct remains lawful
- Consent protects meaning and relationship
- Consequences of violating Ayaawk
- Consistency across houses and clans
- Consistency does not require uniformity
- Consistent understanding supports unity
- Context Determines Meaning and Scope
- Context Must Accompany Any Recorded Crest History
- Context Must Accompany Record
- Context and Identity Must Accompany Any Record
- Context and Lineage Must Accompany Record
- Context determines lawful use.
- Context includes speaker, place, time, and purpose.
- Context must accompany all records.
- Context must accompany recorded material
- Continuity Depends on Accurate Transmission
- Continuity Depends on Correct Telling
- Continuity depends on careful preservation.
- Continuity depends on correct transmission, not assumption
- Continuity depends on correct understanding of law
- Continuity depends on correct use of the Codex
- Continuity depends on uninterrupted transmission
- Continuity during disruption
- Continuity of law does not depend on recognition
- Continuity through Adaawk
- Coordinate inter-house relationships
- Coordination does not create hierarchy between communities.
- Coordination supports, but does not replace, local governance
- Coordination supports shared understanding of law.
- Correct implementation strengthens Nation law
- Correct interpretation strengthens governance
- Correct response strengthens law.
- Correct restraint strengthens long-term governance.
- Correct use strengthens collective governance.
- Corrections strengthen accuracy.
- Crest Histories
- Crest Histories Are Preserved Through Adaawk and Teaching
- Crest Histories Are Taught Through Story and Practice
- Crest Histories Clarify Relationships Between Houses
- Crest Histories Guide Inter House and Inter Tribal Conduct
- Crest Histories Operate as Legal Memory
- Crest Histories Record Significant Events Actions or Agreements
- Crest Ownership Is Tied to House and Lineage
- Crest obligations across all Tsm’syen territories
- Crests Are Held by Houses Not Individuals
- Crests Carry History and Law
- Crests Confer Lawful Authority Within Defined Scope
- Crests Endure Through Lawful Use
- Crests Identify House Lineage and Authority
- Crests May Be Displayed in Ceremony Governance and Teaching
- Crests May Not Be Invented or Altered
- Crests Record Events Relationships and Authority
- Crests Represent Recorded Histories and Rights
- Crests and Symbolic Authority
- Cultural decoration
- Current decision-makers act as temporary holders.
- Custodianship of names, crests, and adaawk
- Damage creates obligation to restore balance
- Decisions affecting the future require witnessing.
- Decisions consider long-term impact.
- Decisions may not foreclose future choice.
- Decisions must consider enduring impact.
- Decisions must consider long-term effects.
- Decisions rely on witness and restraint.
- Deference to external systems without consent undermines law.
- Defining Free, Prior, and Informed Consent in Tsm’syen terms
- Denial or concealment of harm prevents resolution.
- Depletion undermines future standing.
- Dialogue does not permit alteration of law
- Differences arise from history, place, and relationship
- Disconnection from land weakens law.
- Display Must Align With Lawful Context
- Display of a Crest Implies Responsibility
- Dispute resolution requires witnesses
- Disputes create imbalance beyond a single house
- Distance from the people, land, or law limits competence
- Do not replace house authority
- Documented Tribal Adaawk Examples
- Dominate others
- Duties of Name Holders
- Duties of protection and care
- Each Crest Is Tied to Specific Events or Origins
- Each community governs its internal affairs.
- Education of future generations
- Elder authority is relational, not positional
- Elder recognition is witnessed over time
- Elders, Sim’oogit, and house members share responsibility for teaching
- Elders, houses, and lawful structures guide interpretation
- Elders Must Never Beg
- Elders Recall and Contextualize Adaawk
- Elders are carriers of legal memory.
- Elders are recognized through age, experience, and conduct
- Elders as Interpreters of Law
- Elders assist in clarifying how ayaawx applies to specific situations
- Elders clarify meaning when law is unclear or contested
- Elders do not authorize violations.
- Elders do not create new law through interpretation
- Elders do not impose outcomes but support balance
- Elders do not impose uniform outcomes
- Elders do not legislate or command outcomes.
- Elders do not override ayaawx
- Elders do not replace house or clan authority
- Elders do not substitute for the responsibility of houses.
- Elders help prevent escalation and misuse of power
- Elders may advise houses, clans, or leadership
- Elders may assist in clarifying law across communities.
- Elders may assist in interpreting law and precedent
- Elders may assist in interpreting law in modern contexts.
- Elders may exist within or outside formal leadership roles
- Elders may guide restorative processes
- Elders may interpret law where clarity is required.
- Elders may provide guidance to the Assembly.
- Elders operate within, not above, Tsm’syen law.
- Elders prioritize balance over outcome
- Elders recall and contextualize adaawx when law is questioned
- Elders recall and interpret adaawx when land is in question
- Elders support the transmission of law through teaching and example
- Ensure continuity of life across generations
- Entries must reflect witnessed understanding.
- Errors may be corrected through lawful process.
- Errors must be identified and corrected.
- Escalation occurs when restoration is refused
- Escalation occurs when restoration is refused or ignored.
- Escalation remains lawful and proportionate.
- Events that established responsibility
- Excessive or careless use undermines balance.
- Exposure to responsibility should be appropriate to readiness
- External Reinterpretation Lacks Authority
- External affirmation does not replace transmission through adaawx
- External claims do not displace internal law.
- External claims do not replace internal law.
- External courts do not automatically possess competent jurisdiction.
- External forums do not determine internal meaning
- External frameworks do not redefine internal law
- External instruments may affirm, but do not create, Indigenous law
- External instruments may be cited to affirm standing and legitimacy
- External interpretation lacks lawful authority
- External jurisdiction is not presumed
- External law may not be used to narrow or redefine Tsm’syen rights
- External legal, academic, or administrative frameworks do not control meaning
- External legal systems do not define its meaning
- External pressure does not alter meaning
- External pressure does not define implementation
- External pressure does not justify permanent loss.
- External reinterpretation lacks authority.
- External relations are conducted
- External support does not imply external supremacy
- Extraction or alteration requires lawful recognition
- Failure of a house to respond affects its standing
- Failure of care weakens authority.
- Failure to coordinate weakens trust
- Failure to protect weakens law.
- Failure to respond may require broader intervention.
- Failure to respond weakens authority.
- Failure to restore balance may require further action
- Father Clan and Grandfather Clan Duties
- Feast House Etiquette
- Feast acknowledgment
- Feast hall acknowledgment
- Fixity is not a goal
- Forest, plant, and animal obligations
- Forms of national decision-making under Ayaawx
- Foundations of Tsm’syen Law
- Fulfillment of obligations
- Future Generations
- Future generations are holders of inherent interest.
- Future generations include those not yet born.
- Generation escapes responsibility
- Glossary Index
- Governance structures must remain understandable.
- Greed and Breakdown of the System
- Guarding against fragmentation of Tsm’syen rights and responsibilities
- Guidance draws on law, memory, and precedent
- Guidance draws on memory, precedent, and restraint
- Guidance draws on precedent and long memory
- Guidance focuses on balance, memory, and consequence
- Guidance respects local context and history
- Guidance to those who will continue this work
- Gwiikxw – Distribution of Gifts and Food
- Harm Creates Imbalance
- Harm creates imbalance
- Harm is understood in social, cultural, and spiritual terms.
- Harm may affect individuals, houses, clans, land, and relationships
- Harm may arise from individuals, organizations, or external systems.
- Harm to land creates imbalance requiring restoration
- Harm to resources affects people, land, and relationships
- Harm to resources creates imbalance requiring restoration.
- Harms to land, water, and beings (e.g. industrial impacts)
- Harvest Cycles and Food Security
- Headstone and Grave Marker Protocols
- Higher-level matters may require broader recognition.
- History Establishes Legitimacy and Limits
- Hopes for*
- Host multiple houses and clans
- House-level matters remain with the houses unless escalation is required
- House-level response is primary where possible.
- House-specific histories and legal narratives
- House (wilp/waap) authority and responsibilities
- House Adaawk
- House Adaawk Are Primarily Oral
- House Adaawk Are Taught Within the Wilp or Waap
- House Adaawk Carry Law Through Memory