Ayaawx Laws and Legal Orders Index

This section records the laws and legal orders of the Tsm’syen Nation.

Ayaawk are the living laws, responsibilities, and obligations that govern conduct, relationships, and authority. Adaawk are the authoritative historical and origin records that carry law, title, and jurisdiction across time.

Together, Ayaawk and Adaawk form a complete legal order.

This framework is not the voice of one person, one community, or one administration. It is a living national record drawn from the houses, clans, and tribes of the Tsm’syen.

This wiki records Tsm’syen law as a living system grounded in oral transmission, witnessing, Adaawk, and lived practice. Written sources are used where appropriate to support the record, but they do not replace living authority or community-held knowledge.

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Foundations of Tsm’syen Law

Purpose

This framework exists to:

• Affirm Ayaawk as the highest law of the Tsm’syen Nation
• Preserve Adaawk as binding legal memory and record
• Describe how Tsm’syen law governs people, lands, waters, and all beings
• Provide a coherent national structure that cannot be fragmented or reinterpreted externally
• Support continuity across generations

This is a living legal record. It grows through careful witnessing, recording, and consensus.

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Structure of the Laws and Legal Orders

Part I — Foundations of Ayaawk

• Origin of Law
• Adaawk as Legal Memory
• Crests and Symbolic Authority

Part II — Social Order of the Tsm’syen

• Structure of the Nation
• Wilp and Waap Governance
• Elders as Interpreters of Law
• Youth and the Future Line

Part III — Justice and Restoration

• Principles of Restorative Justice
• Inter-House and Inter-Tribal Dispute Law
• Competent Jurisdiction

Part IV — Territorial Order

• Laxyuup — Lands of the Tsm’syen
• Stewardship and Resource Law
• Modern Violations and National Response

Part V — National Governance Under Ayaawk

• Tsm’syen National Assembly
• National Ayaawk Codex
• Implementation Across All Communities

Part VI — Protection and External Relations

• Protection from External Reinterpretation
• UNDRIP, Section 25, and International Law

Part VII — Adaawk Records

• Tribal Adaawk
• House Adaawk
• Crest Histories
• Witness Statements

Part VIII — Recorder’s Appendix

• Methodology of Recording
• Future Generations

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Legal Character of This Framework

• Ayaawk is law, not policy
• Adaawk are legal records, not stories
• Authority arises from responsibility, witnessing, and continuity
• No external legal system supersedes Ayaawk
• International standards may be used as protection, not limitation

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This framework is maintained in service to the people and to those yet unborn.