B G Miller
Biographic Data
| ID | 16691 |
|---|---|
| NAME | B G Miller |
| GIVEN NAMES | B G |
| FAMILY NAME | Miller |
| SIGNATURE | MILLER B G |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of British Columbia |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4951-1664 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 46 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 62 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 46 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1982 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Lha Yudit’ih We Always Find a Way: Bringing the Tsilhqot’in Case Home . Lorraine Weir, with Chief Roger William
Professor Stephen Grant Baines: The Power of International Networks
Stephen Grant Baines’ essay reveals an exceptionally energetic career in an- thropology, focusing on what I call “useful anthropology,” which addresses dilemmas facing real people and communities in the present day. He does this by employing conventional anthropological methods and theory, in particular ethnographic fieldwork, in a wide variety of locations, including prisons, rural Indigenous communities, urban settings, government offices, and …
Cooperation without Submission: Indigenous Jurisdictions in Native Nation-US Engagements. By Justin B. Richland
Journal Article Cooperation without Submission: Indigenous Jurisdictions in Native Nation-US Engagements. By Justin B. Richland Get access Cooperation without Submission: Indigenous Jurisdictions in Native Nation-US Engagements By Justin B. Richland (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2021. xiii + 230 pp. Photographs, maps, references, index. $25.00.) Bruce Granville Miller Bruce Granville Miller University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Brit…
In support of free-standing Indigenous legal systems: Comparisons of US tribal courts and Canadian First Nations courts
US and Canadian approaches to tribal legal orders have taken different paths, and here I argue that the Canadian model should move towards free-standing Indigenous courts as they currently exist in the United States. The Canadian approach has focussed on the issue of over-incarceration of Indigenous prisoners, but even newer efforts have stopped short of recognising at least partial criminal and civil jurisdiction. The Canadian approach fails to …
Weaver-Tremblay Prize: Anthropology in the Court and Tribunal
Weaver-Tremblay Prize
Social Networks and Stratagems of Nineteenth-Century Coast Salish Leaders
During the socially transformative mid-nineteenth century in the Salish Sea region of the Northwest Coast, a number of influential leaders emerged within Indigenous tribal groups. They played a significant role in reshaping the social geography of the region, blending emergent religious, commercial, and military bases for authority with more conventional Coast Salish strategies of patronage and generosity. The authors examine the lives and social…
An Ethnographic and Humanistic View: Does the BC Human Rights Tribunal Hold Promise for Indigenous People
In this paper I consider if the BC human rights tribunal holds promise for Indigenous peoples or is best understood as Trojan horses that absorb the energies of people who have experienced discrimination and as state-centered institutions which are unable to engage with Indigenous values and practices. The data are derived from an examination of all decisions given by the British Columbia Human Rights Tribunal to sort out those brought by or agai…
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Brenden W. Rensink. Native but Foreign: Indigenous Immigrants and Refugees in the North American Borderlands
Reading Native but Foreign: Indigenous Immigrants and Refugees in the North American Borderlands, I recognize a scholar, hard at work, hoping to shed light on the comparative and complex histories of Indigenous peoples and their relations to the several nineteenth- and twentieth-century states of North America. Historian Brenden W. Rensink has organized his book thematically and chronologically into four parts, with an introduction and succinct c…
Chehalis Stories
Some books encourage and reward thumbing back and forth between the text and endnotes. Chehalis Stories is such a book. It is a rich storehouse of stories and commentaries that collectively constitute a “reconciliation of fragments” (ix) of the stories told by the Chehalis people of the State of Washington. The editor, Jolynn Amrine Goertz, views her work as gathering and contextualizing these stories by showing the engagement of anthropologists,…
Aboriginal Rights Claims and the Making and Remaking of History by Arthur J. Ray
"Aboriginal Rights Claims and the Making and Remaking of History by Arthur J. Ray." Canadian Journal of History, 53(1), pp. 169–170
Sur la frontière: Les Salish du littoral et l’érosion de la souveraineté
En cette ère de déclin de la capacité de l'État à contrôler ses frontières, l'une des solutions a consisté à créer des « spectacles de pouvoir », à savoir des murs et barrières fortifiés. Sur le territoire des Salish du littoral en Colombie-Britannique et dans l'État de Washington, ces barrières ont entravé les déplacements légaux des peuples autochtones. En me basant sur un travail de terrain et sur ma participation en tant qu'expert et témoin, …
Traders and Raiders: The Indigenous World of the Colorado Basin, 1540–1859 , by Natale A. Zappia
Traders Raiders: The Indigenous World of the Colorado Basin, 1540-1859, by Natale A. Zappia. Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina Press, 2014. xii, 240 pp. $39.95 US (cloth). This book poses the question, What if we view the Colorado Basin as composed of an indigenous core in the period 1540-1859, with a Euro Euro-American periphery? Natale Zappia, an assistant professor of history at Whittier, unsettles common perceptions of Native-white re…
Lisa Blee. Framing Chief Leschi: Narratives and the Politics of Historical Justice
Puget Sound in the 1850s was a violent and confused backwater. Warriors engaged volunteer soldiers in skirmishes while settlers lynched native people. In the midst of this, Governor Isaac Stevens negotiated treaties that deprived the indigenous residents of core lands, and a group of aggrieved Indians attacked the brand-new settlement of Seattle. In 1857, Leschi, a leader of the Nisqually nation of southern Puget Sound, was convicted of murdering…
Anthropological Experts and the Legal System: Brazil and Canada
Anthropological Experts and the Legal SystemBrazil and Canada Bruce Granville Miller (bio) and Gustavo Menezes (bio) Anthropologists are commonly called into the legal system in a number of countries to present expert testimony regarding Indigenous issues and people. In this article we examine how this process occurs in our two countries (Miller in Canada and Menezes in Brazil) and two different legal traditions. We first briefly describe the way…
Life on the Hardened Border
The many Coast Salish groups distributed on both sides of the United States-Canada border on the Pacific coast today face significant obstacles to cross the international border, and in some cases are denied passage or intimidated into not attempting to cross. The current situation regarding travel by Aboriginal people reflects the "hardening" of the border by United States officials following the events of "9-11." A bureaucratic environment has …
Oral History on Trial: Recognizing Aboriginal Narratives in the Courts
In many western countries, judicial decisions are based on "black letter law" text-based, well-established law. Within this tradition, testimony based on what witnesses have heard from others, known as hearsay, cannot be considered as legitimate evidence. This interdiction, however, presents significant difficulties for Aboriginal plaintiffs who rely on oral rather than written accounts for knowledge transmission. This important book breaks new g…
Defying the Odds: The Tule River Tribe's Struggle for Sovereignty in Three Centuries by Gelya Frank and Carole Goldberg
Recognition Odysseys: Indigeneity, Race, and Federal Tribal Recognition Policy in Three Louisiana Indian Communities. Brian Klopotek
New Perspectives on Native America: Cultures, Histories, and Representations. Sergei Kan , Pauline Turner Strong
Bringing Culture in: Community Responses to Apology, Reconciliation, and Reparations
We live in an era of the proliferation of the use of apology and attempts at formal reconciliation by national governments and civil institutions, such as churches, to breach grievances with particular populations within the national borders. This is the case in Canada as well as the United States concerning indigenous peoples and other groups. Although these apologies are accompanied by various well-publicized ritualized events there is inadequa…
Who Are Indigenes? A Comparative Study of Canadian and American Practices
There are currently hundreds of groups in the United States and Canada that clamor for state-to-state recognition by the federal governments as bona fide Indigenous peoples. This comparative study of American and Canadian policy and practice toward these nonrecognized communities is set in a historical perspective, focusing on legislation, administrative policy, and legal judgments that affect conceptualizations of Indigenes. This article argues …
Tribal sovereignty and the historical imagination: Cheyenne-Arapaho politics - Fowler, Loretta
Tribal or Native Law
This chapter contains section titled: PROBLEMS IN RECONSTRUCTING TRIBAL LAW WHAT WERE PRIOR JUSTICE/LAW PRACTICES? TRIBAL LAW/JUSTICE INITIATIVES AND THE PROBLEMS OF INTEGRATING TRIBAL LAW
The Problem of Justice: Tradition and Law in the Coast Salish World
Journal Article The Problem of Justice: Tradition and Law in the Coast Salish World Get access The Problem of Justice: Tradition and Law in the Coast Salish World. By Miller Bruce G.. (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.) Coll-Peter Thrush Coll-Peter Thrush University of Washington Search for other works by this author…
Creating Chiefdoms: The Puget Sound Case
The AA. critique an influential argument that rejects existing interpretations in claiming the existence of protohistorical chiefdoms in the Puget Sound area of Washington State. The case for chiefdoms is disputed for the use of dated theoretical models and for faulty ethnohistoric reconstruction. An alternative model is provided that builds on earlier scholarship. The AA. argue that reinterpretations created for contemporary political purposes m…
The Problem of Justice: Tradition and Law in the Coast Salish World
Journal Article The Problem of Justice: Tradition and Law in the Coast Salish World Get access The Problem of Justice: Tradition and Law in the Coast Salish World. By Miller Bruce G.. (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.) Coll-Peter Thrush Coll-Peter Thrush University of Washington Search for other works by this author…
Centrality and Measures of Regional Structure in Aboriginal Western Washington
Anthropological Experts and the Legal System: Brazil and Canada
Anthropological Experts and the Legal SystemBrazil and Canada Bruce Granville Miller (bio) and Gustavo Menezes (bio) Anthropologists are commonly called into the legal system in a number of countries to present expert testimony regarding Indigenous issues and people. In this article we examine how this process occurs in our two countries (Miller in Canada and Menezes in Brazil) and two different legal traditions. We first briefly describe the way…
Social Networks and Stratagems of Nineteenth-Century Coast Salish Leaders
During the socially transformative mid-nineteenth century in the Salish Sea region of the Northwest Coast, a number of influential leaders emerged within Indigenous tribal groups. They played a significant role in reshaping the social geography of the region, blending emergent religious, commercial, and military bases for authority with more conventional Coast Salish strategies of patronage and generosity. The authors examine the lives and social…
The Problem of Justice: Tradition and Law in the Coast Salish World
Journal Article The Problem of Justice: Tradition and Law in the Coast Salish World Get access Miller Bruce G., The Problem of Justice: Tradition and Law in the Coast Salish World. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2000. xiv, 240 pp. $55.00 (cloth). $19.95 (paper). Hamar Foster Hamar Foster University of Victoria Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar American Journal of Legal History, Volume 45, Issue 3, Ju…
The Individual, the Collective, and Tribal Code
Over the last few decades more than 100 US Indian tribes have established their own tribal courts and, consequently, have produced (and continue to revise) their own law codes. This paper examines the place of the individual, and individual rights, within several of these communities and, ultimately, within their codes and constitutions. In creating their own legal systems, small scale Indian societies face a different set of problems than those …
Women and Politics: Comparative Evidence from the Northwest Coast
The Heiltsuks: Dialogues of Culture and History on the Northwest Coast
The Heiltsuks: Dialogues of Culture and History on the Northwest Coast. Michael E. Harkin. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1997. 195 pp
Evolution or History? A Response to Tollefson
You either grasp an interpretation or you do not, see the point of it or you do not, accept it or you do not. Imprisoned in the immediacy of its own detail, it is presented as self-validating, or, worse, as validated by the supposedly developed sensitivities of the person who presents it; any attempt to cast what it says in terms other than its own is regarded as a travesty-as, the anthropologist's severest form of moral abuse, ethnocentric. (I97…
Folk Law and Contemporary Coast Salish Tribal Code
An important issue facing leaders of elective Indian Reorganization Act tribal governments is how to establish efficacy and create legitimacy in the minds of community members by building the values and ethos of earlier periods into the operation of tribal government and courts. More specifically, DeLoria and Lytle have argued that the “[e]xtensive development of tribal customs as the basis for a tribal court’s decision will enable these institut…
In support of free-standing Indigenous legal systems: Comparisons of US tribal courts and Canadian First Nations courts
US and Canadian approaches to tribal legal orders have taken different paths, and here I argue that the Canadian model should move towards free-standing Indigenous courts as they currently exist in the United States. The Canadian approach has focussed on the issue of over-incarceration of Indigenous prisoners, but even newer efforts have stopped short of recognising at least partial criminal and civil jurisdiction. The Canadian approach fails to …
An Ethnographic and Humanistic View: Does the BC Human Rights Tribunal Hold Promise for Indigenous People
In this paper I consider if the BC human rights tribunal holds promise for Indigenous peoples or is best understood as Trojan horses that absorb the energies of people who have experienced discrimination and as state-centered institutions which are unable to engage with Indigenous values and practices. The data are derived from an examination of all decisions given by the British Columbia Human Rights Tribunal to sort out those brought by or agai…
Sur la frontière: Les Salish du littoral et l’érosion de la souveraineté
En cette ère de déclin de la capacité de l'État à contrôler ses frontières, l'une des solutions a consisté à créer des « spectacles de pouvoir », à savoir des murs et barrières fortifiés. Sur le territoire des Salish du littoral en Colombie-Britannique et dans l'État de Washington, ces barrières ont entravé les déplacements légaux des peuples autochtones. En me basant sur un travail de terrain et sur ma participation en tant qu'expert et témoin, …
Women and Tribal Politics: Is There a Gender Gap in Indian Elections
Contemporary Tribal Codes and Gender Issues
This paper makes three related points: first, that many of the present-day legal codes of U.S. Indian tribes are unexpectedly innovative and representative of contemporary indigenous viewpoints, especially in the ways in which individual rights are conceived; second, that the variability in the way the codes treat issues of special concern to women demonstrates the extent of the imprint of local tribal people on their own codes; and third, that a…
Autonomy and the Need to Preserve Life
Centrality and Measures of Regional Structure in Aboriginal Western Washington
Astoria and Empire
Saga of the Coeur D'Alene Indians: An Account of Chief Joseph Seltice
Women and Politics: Comparative Evidence from the Northwest Coast
Yakima, Cayuse, Umatilla, Walla Walla, and Wanapum Indians: An Historical Bibliography
The Tlingit Indians
Applied Anthropology: Anthropology, Public Policy and Native Peoples in Canada. Noel Dyck and James B. Waldram
Women and Tribal Politics: Is There a Gender Gap in Indian Elections
Contemporary Tribal Codes and Gender Issues
This paper makes three related points: first, that many of the present-day legal codes of U.S. Indian tribes are unexpectedly innovative and representative of contemporary indigenous viewpoints, especially in the ways in which individual rights are conceived; second, that the variability in the way the codes treat issues of special concern to women demonstrates the extent of the imprint of local tribal people on their own codes; and third, that a…
Creating Chiefdoms: The Puget Sound Case
The AA. critique an influential argument that rejects existing interpretations in claiming the existence of protohistorical chiefdoms in the Puget Sound area of Washington State. The case for chiefdoms is disputed for the use of dated theoretical models and for faulty ethnohistoric reconstruction. An alternative model is provided that builds on earlier scholarship. The AA. argue that reinterpretations created for contemporary political purposes m…
Contemporary Native Women: Role Flexibility and Politics
Some recent efforts to reconceptualize contemporary Native gender systems (1) argue that tribal and band political life is best understood by reference to social formations other than gender systems and (2) rely on poorly defined notions of one feature of the gender system, role flexibility. This article argues that these two issues are connected; differences in role flexibility by sex help channel the political participation of men and women. Se…
Folk Law and Contemporary Coast Salish Tribal Code
An important issue facing leaders of elective Indian Reorganization Act tribal governments is how to establish efficacy and create legitimacy in the minds of community members by building the values and ethos of earlier periods into the operation of tribal government and courts. More specifically, DeLoria and Lytle have argued that the “[e]xtensive development of tribal customs as the basis for a tribal court’s decision will enable these institut…
Lushootseed Texts: An Introduction to Puget Salish Narrative Aesthetics
This volume introduces the oral literature of Native American peoples in Puget Salish-speaking areas of western Washington. Seven stories told by Lushootseed elders are transcribed and translated into English, accompanied by information on narrative design and cultural background. Upper Skagit elder and cotranslator Vi Hilbert, a 1994 recipient of the NEH National Heritage Fellowship in Folk Arts, includes a cultural welcome and offers childhood …
Evolution or History? A Response to Tollefson
You either grasp an interpretation or you do not, see the point of it or you do not, accept it or you do not. Imprisoned in the immediacy of its own detail, it is presented as self-validating, or, worse, as validated by the supposedly developed sensitivities of the person who presents it; any attempt to cast what it says in terms other than its own is regarded as a travesty-as, the anthropologist's severest form of moral abuse, ethnocentric. (I97…
The Individual, the Collective, and Tribal Code
Over the last few decades more than 100 US Indian tribes have established their own tribal courts and, consequently, have produced (and continue to revise) their own law codes. This paper examines the place of the individual, and individual rights, within several of these communities and, ultimately, within their codes and constitutions. In creating their own legal systems, small scale Indian societies face a different set of problems than those …
Popular Justice and Community Regeneration: Pathways of Indigenous Reform
The Heiltsuks: Dialogues of Culture and History on the Northwest Coast
The Heiltsuks: Dialogues of Culture and History on the Northwest Coast. Michael E. Harkin. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1997. 195 pp
Aboriginal Slavery on the Northwest Coast of North America
The Problem of Justice: Tradition and Law in the Coast Salish World
Journal Article The Problem of Justice: Tradition and Law in the Coast Salish World Get access Miller Bruce G., The Problem of Justice: Tradition and Law in the Coast Salish World. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2000. xiv, 240 pp. $55.00 (cloth). $19.95 (paper). Hamar Foster Hamar Foster University of Victoria Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar American Journal of Legal History, Volume 45, Issue 3, Ju…
Theorizing the Americanist Tradition
Theorizing the Americanist Tradition. Lisa Philips Valentine and Regna Darnell. eds. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1999. 397 pp., figures
The Problem of Justice: Tradition and Law in the Coast Salish World
Journal Article The Problem of Justice: Tradition and Law in the Coast Salish World Get access The Problem of Justice: Tradition and Law in the Coast Salish World. By Miller Bruce G.. (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.) Coll-Peter Thrush Coll-Peter Thrush University of Washington Search for other works by this author…
Tribal or Native Law
This chapter contains section titled: PROBLEMS IN RECONSTRUCTING TRIBAL LAW WHAT WERE PRIOR JUSTICE/LAW PRACTICES? TRIBAL LAW/JUSTICE INITIATIVES AND THE PROBLEMS OF INTEGRATING TRIBAL LAW
Bringing Culture in: Community Responses to Apology, Reconciliation, and Reparations
We live in an era of the proliferation of the use of apology and attempts at formal reconciliation by national governments and civil institutions, such as churches, to breach grievances with particular populations within the national borders. This is the case in Canada as well as the United States concerning indigenous peoples and other groups. Although these apologies are accompanied by various well-publicized ritualized events there is inadequa…
Who Are Indigenes? A Comparative Study of Canadian and American Practices
There are currently hundreds of groups in the United States and Canada that clamor for state-to-state recognition by the federal governments as bona fide Indigenous peoples. This comparative study of American and Canadian policy and practice toward these nonrecognized communities is set in a historical perspective, focusing on legislation, administrative policy, and legal judgments that affect conceptualizations of Indigenes. This article argues …
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