Cis dideen kat - When the Plumes Rise: The Way of the Lake Babine Nation

This book, the first to be written about the Lake Babine Nation in north-central British Columbia, examines its traditional legal order, self-identity, and their involvement in current treaty negotiations. Changing relations between the First Nations and the Canadian state have led to a new awareness of customary legal orders. These orders can help the state accommodate diverse approaches to judicial fairness and social justice, and offer a way for Aboriginal nations to maintain their identity and own moral order in a viable, self-defined and self-governed community. The Lake Babine Nation expresses this order through the balhats, or potlatch. Cis dideen kat describes their customary legal practices and interprets the changing relations between the Lake Babine Nation and the state.