Nationhood Interrupted

This book is the first of its kind. Traditionally, nêhiyaw (Cree) laws are passed down through the generations in the oral tradition, utilizing stories, songs, ceremonies, and other sacred rites. The loss of Indigenous languages, customs, and traditions, a direct result of colonization, has necessitated this departure from the oral tradition to record the physical laws of the nêhiyaw. The spiritual laws can never be written down. McAdam, a co-founder of the international movement Idle No More, shares nêhiyaw laws so that future generations, nêhiyaw and non-Indigenous people, may understand and live by them to revitalize Indigenous nationhood. Understanding and gaining an awareness of Indigenous laws will provide insight into the thoughts and worldview of Indigenous people before and during the numbered Treaty making process, and help create a harmonious society for all. Hopefully, then, the pain of the poverty, incarceration, suicide, death after death, without hope for the future, of nêhiyaw will become a distant memory.