How this framework was built and who contributed

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How This Framework Was Built and Who Contributed

This framework was built as a **living, descriptive record** of Ts’msyen law, governance, and responsibility as understood through *ayaawx*, adaawx, lived practice, and community guidance. It is not a declaration of final interpretation, nor a replacement for lawful authority held by Elders, houses (*wilp*), and clans (*pdeex*).

This page explains **how the framework was developed**, **whose voices informed it**, and **the limits under which it was created**.

Purpose of the Framework

This framework was created to:

  • organize Ts’msyen legal principles in one place
  • reduce loss, confusion, and misrepresentation
  • protect against external reinterpretation
  • support learning by youth and community members
  • provide a reference for discussion, not decision

It exists to **support living law**, not to define it.

Method of Building

The framework was built through:

  • careful listening rather than extraction
  • repeated drafting and revision
  • separating description from interpretation
  • avoiding summaries of restricted knowledge
  • constant attention to limits and protocol
  • refusal to fix law into rigid form

Each page was written to explain *how* Ts’msyen law functions, not *what it commands* in specific cases.

Sources of Understanding

Understanding reflected in this framework draws from:

  • Ts’msyen adaawx (without retelling)
  • house-held legal narratives (without disclosure)
  • Elder guidance and recorded statements (with limits)
  • community reflection and lived experience
  • observation of lawful process and protocol
  • long-standing Ts’msyen governance practices

No single source was treated as complete or final.

Role of Elders and Knowledge Holders

Elders and knowledge holders:

  • remain the lawful interpreters of ayaawx
  • were treated as guides, not sources to be quoted
  • are not frozen into recorded authority
  • retain the right to correct, clarify, or reject any part

This framework defers to living guidance at all times.

Community Contributions

Community members contributed through:

  • asking questions
  • sharing lived experience
  • identifying gaps or risks
  • flagging misuse of language
  • emphasizing protection over exposure
  • reminding the work of its limits

These contributions shaped direction, tone, and restraint.

Role of the Compilers

Those compiling this framework:

  • do not claim authority to interpret ayaawx
  • act as recorders and organizers, not law-makers
  • remain external to lawful interpretation
  • acknowledge limits of understanding
  • welcome correction and guidance

This work was done **in service**, not in leadership.

Language and Framing Choices

Language was chosen deliberately to:

  • avoid supremacy or finality
  • prevent importing foreign legal tests
  • protect house-held knowledge
  • maintain humility and openness
  • keep authority clearly located elsewhere

Where language risks distortion, restraint was chosen.

Review and Correction

This framework is open to:

  • correction
  • clarification
  • refinement
  • expansion
  • removal of content if harmful

Review by Elders and houses is welcomed and necessary.

What This Framework Is Not

This framework is not:

  • a constitution
  • a code of law
  • an exhaustive record
  • a substitute for feast and witness
  • a declaration of authority
  • a public domain source of sacred knowledge

It is a map, not the land.

Responsibility to the Future

The framework was built with future generations in mind.

Its aim is to:

  • leave pathways open
  • prevent inherited surrender
  • support learning without fixing meaning
  • preserve room for living authority

Future Ts’msyen are not bound by this work.

Invitation and Boundary

This framework invites:

  • respectful reading
  • careful reflection
  • community dialogue
  • Elder guidance

It sets a boundary against:

  • external reinterpretation
  • misuse as law
  • selective quotation
  • authority claims based on text alone

Living Status

This framework remains living.

It will:

  • change with guidance
  • adapt with learning
  • remain unfinished by design

Where ayaawx lives, law lives. This framework simply tries to listen.

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