| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 34.1

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Book Review

The Problem of Justice: Tradition and Law in the Coast Salish World. By Bruce G. Miller. (Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, 2001. xiv + 240 pp. Illustrations, maps, tables, bibliography, index. $55.00, £39.00, cloth; $19.95, £14.50, paper.)

To what extent can indigenous traditions of justice be brought into present-day tribal administration? This question drives anthropologist Bruce G. Miller's new work, the second installment in the University of Nebraska Press's Fourth World Rising Series. Miller's answer is this: Native legal traditions—including the social relations and non-human forces informing them—can and should be brought to bear on today's legal landscape, but must reflect the historical experiences of the community they hope to govern. When "tradition" becomes reified, or serves only a small segment of the community, tribal justice programs collapse, taking other community aspirations with them. . . .

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