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- A National Council of Elders as keepers and interpreters of Ayaawx
- A living collection of principles and rulings
- Accountability before witnesses
- Accountability for harm
- Accountability to the Wilp
- Accumulate personal wealth
- Act as stewards, not owners
- Acts of protection, sacrifice, or consequence
- Adaawk as Legal Memory
- Adaawk that record precedent
- Adaawx as the record of land and title
- Adaawx guide interpretation across generations
- Adaawx record the history of law in practice
- Adherence to Ayaawk
- Adoption, bloodlines, and membership in a house
- Affirming the non-supremacy of foreign constitutional or statutory law over Ayaawx
- Agreements, conflicts, and resolutions
- Amsiiwa – Meaning and Misuse
- Application across all Tsm’syen territories
- Apprenticeship and transfer of knowledge
- Are accountable to their house and clan
- Asserting Tsm’syen national sovereignty and inherent rights
- Authority arises from trust, conduct, and knowledge.
- Authority connected to specific territory
- Authority exists without history
- Authority is exercised through careful speech and silence
- Authority may be withdrawn by lawful process
- Authority of Elder women
- Authority of name holders
- Ayaawk is upheld
- Ayaawk remains intact
- Ayaawx
- Ayaawx Laws and Legal Orders Index
- Ayaawx Overview
- Ayaawx and adaawx must be taught deliberately
- Ayaawx as the primary jurisdiction of the Tsm’syen Nation
- Ayaawx mandates for respectful relations with the environment
- Ayaawx provides the framework of law
- Bax Ma’ga – Sending Loved Ones On
- Blackfish, Raven, Eagle, Wolf and other crests
- Bloodlines and Adoption
- Breaks in teaching weaken governance
- Carry crests temporarily
- Ceremonial settlement and agreement
- Ceremony
- Chart test
- Click here to enter a new word
- Climate Change Impacts
- Collective defense of law and land is organized
- Colonial Drift and New “Made-Up Laws”
- Colonial Influences on Regalia
- Community reflections and clarifications
- Compensation
- Competent Jurisdiction
- Conduct remains lawful
- Consequences of violating Ayaawk
- Consistency across houses and clans
- Continuity depends on correct transmission, not assumption
- Continuity depends on correct understanding of law
- Continuity depends on uninterrupted transmission
- Continuity during disruption
- Continuity through Adaawk
- Coordinate inter-house relationships
- Crest Histories
- Crest obligations across all Tsm’syen territories
- Crests and Symbolic Authority
- Cultural decoration
- Custodianship of names, crests, and adaawk
- Defining Free, Prior, and Informed Consent in Tsm’syen terms
- Do not replace house authority
- Dominate others
- Duties of Name Holders
- Duties of protection and care
- Education of future generations
- Elder authority is relational, not positional
- Elder recognition is witnessed over time
- Elders, Sim’oogit, and house members share responsibility for teaching
- Elders Must Never Beg
- Elders are carriers of legal memory.
- Elders are recognized through age, experience, and conduct
- Elders as Interpreters of Law
- Elders assist in clarifying how ayaawx applies to specific situations
- Elders clarify meaning when law is unclear or contested
- Elders do not create new law through interpretation
- Elders do not override ayaawx
- Elders do not replace house or clan authority
- Elders help prevent escalation and misuse of power
- Elders may advise houses, clans, or leadership
- Elders may exist within or outside formal leadership roles
- Elders operate within, not above, Tsm’syen law.
- Elders prioritize balance over outcome
- Elders recall and contextualize adaawx when law is questioned
- Elders support the transmission of law through teaching and example
- Ensure continuity of life across generations
- Events that established responsibility
- Exposure to responsibility should be appropriate to readiness
- External relations are conducted
- Father Clan and Grandfather Clan Duties
- Feast House Etiquette
- Feast acknowledgment
- Feast hall acknowledgment
- Forest, plant, and animal obligations
- Forms of national decision-making under Ayaawx
- Foundations of Tsm’syen Law
- Fulfillment of obligations
- Future Generations
- Generation escapes responsibility
- Glossary Index
- Greed and Breakdown of the System
- Guarding against fragmentation of Tsm’syen rights and responsibilities
- Guidance to those who will continue this work
- Gwiikxw – Distribution of Gifts and Food
- Harm creates imbalance
- Harms to land, water, and beings (e.g. industrial impacts)
- Harvest Cycles and Food Security
- Headstone and Grave Marker Protocols
- Hopes for*
- Host multiple houses and clans
- House-specific histories and legal narratives
- House (wilp/waap) authority and responsibilities
- House Adaawk
- How community knowledge is gathered and recorded
- How land was acquired or entrusted
- How these stories define law and territory
- How this framework was built and who contributed
- How to Sign In and Get a Username & Password
- Identity markers divorced from duty
- Implementation Across All Communities
- Index
- Inter-House and Inter-Tribal Dispute Law
- Inter-community matters are addressed
- Interference Between Houses
- Intergenerational continuity
- Interpretation considers history, relationship, and consequence.
- Interpretation does not eliminate responsibility
- Interpretation does not equal unilateral decision-making.
- Interpretation is offered, not imposed
- Interpretation is part of education and preparation
- Interpretation relies on precedent, balance, and restraint
- Jurisdictional responsibility
- Justice seeks restoration, not retaliation.
- Justify exploitation
- Key adaawx of each Tsm’syen tribe
- Klem'duul'x
- Ksyeen
- Land-Based Education
- Lateral Violence and Its Dangers
- Law as the transformation of suffering and restoration of balance
- Law exists without memory
- Law is interpreted through ayaawx and adaawx.
- Law is strengthened through restraint
- Lawful relationships between peoples and territories
- Lawful use and access
- Laxyuup — Lands of the Tsm’syen
- Learning is ongoing and contextual
- Legal authority continues across centuries
- Limits are respected
- Limits on authority
- Living Witnesses
- Living practice across generations
- Living witnesses
- Loss of trust limits interpretive authority
- Luudisk:AdminDashboard
- MAPS & PLACE NAMES
- Main Page
- Maintain balance across houses
- Maintain balance among all beings
- Meaning and responsibilities of crests
- Methodology of Recording
- Milton Cloth, Fur, Abalone, Goat Hair
- Misuse of Names – Modern Issues
- Modern Violations and National Response
- Name-bearing roles and succession
- Names Connected to Land and Resources
- Names as living continuity of persons and roles
- Names that carry legal continuity
- National Ayaawk Codex
- Naxnok – History Re-Enactments
- No Chief Stands Alone
- Obligations carried by houses and clans
- Obligations to land, water, and beings
- Observation precedes decision-making responsibility
- Oral Histories and Family Trees
- Oral law as binding law
- Organizational logos
- Origin of Law
- Origins of crests and their legal meaning
- Overview of Tsm’syen tribes
- Participation in house and national decision-making
- Participation increases with knowledge, conduct, and readiness
- Participation may include ceremony, feasts, work, and discussion
- Past actions remain accountable
- Paths of resolution under Tsm’syen law before any external forum
- Political branding
- Precedents for resolving future disputes
- Preparation does not imply immediate authority
- Preparation is gradual and relational
- Prevent the concentration of power without responsibility
- Preventing “reasonable limits” arguments from eroding Tsm’syen law
- Principles of Restorative Justice
- Principles of honesty, respect, and transparency
- Protecting Land from Industry
- Protection against external denial
- Protection ensures long-term strength of governance
- Protection from External Reinterpretation
- Protection from external reinterpretation of Ayaawx
- Protocols between houses and tribes
- Provide checks against isolation or abuse of authority
- Provide space for collective deliberation
- Public accountability
- Public accountability and witness
- Public memory of responsibility
- Public recounting
- Rebalancing harm through compensation and ceremony
- Recognition by witnesses
- Recorded statements from Elders and knowledge holders
- Regular review and renewal through Elders and houses
- Relationship between traditional and elected structures
- Relationship to specific lands and waters
- Relationships between crest-bearing houses and tribes
- Relationships between tribes and clan groupings
- Relationships formed between peoples, beings, and places
- Renewal of relationships
- Representation by houses, clans, and tribes
- Research work of Lekagyet Wii Gwinaal
- Respect, Trust, Honor, Humility
- Respectful coexistence with band and municipal systems
- Responsibilities are fulfilled
- Responsibilities carried by each name and crest
- Responsibilities of Wilp Members in Feasts
- Responsibilities of youth in learning Ayaawx
- Responsibilities remain intact
- Responsibilities to rivers, mountains, inlets, and seas
- Responsibility for land, water, and beings
- Responsibility is assumed gradually and with guidance
- Responsibility is collective as well as individual
- Responsibility is learned before authority is held
- Responsibility may be rebalanced
- Restorative approaches to modern environmental and social harms
- Restore balance when harm occurs
- Restoring relationships rather than casting people away
- Rights and Responsibilities
- Rights and Responsibilities on the Land
- Rights of Members on the Land
- Rights to speak, act, and represent
- Role of Matriarchs
- Role of a Chief (Speaker, Not Ruler)
- Role of hereditary name holders and Elders
- Roles may be reassigned
- Roles of Father Clan and Grandfather Clan
- Rules of Conduct
- Salmon law, river law, and ocean law
- Seeking recognition without surrendering Ayaawx
- Selecting Leadership
- Serve external interests
- Shared Ayaawk is articulated
- Sigyidm hana̱'a̱
- Silence dissent
- Smalgyax Video Archive
- Smoke Feasts
- Songs, Dances, and Naxnok
- Spiritual authority and the unseen world
- Stewardship and Resource Law
- Stories as title deeds and legal records
- Stories preserve outcomes of past disputes and resolutions
- Structure of the Nation
- Support daily governance, care, and mutual aid
- Support lawful succession and continuity
- Talking Stick / Truth Stick
- Teaching occurs through story, participation, and correction
- Territorial boundaries and use rights
- Territories of the Tsm’syen tribes
- The Nation has a collective duty to protect the future line
- The accumulated witnessing of consequences when balance is kept or broken
- The ancestral realm
- The clan (pdeex) system
- The cosmic order and source of Ayaawx
- The duty to uphold Ayaawk within its domain
- The future generations not yet born
- The future line is protected through care and teaching
- The future line refers to the continuation of law, names, and responsibility
- The origin of names, houses, and crests
- The original instructions given at the beginning of time
- The recorder’s role as servant to the people, not ruler over them
- The relationships between humans, lands, waters, animals, and unseen beings
- The responsibilities carried by names and crests
- The role of witnesses, feasts, and public record
- The spiritual order
- Traditional Blankets and Crests
- Training Youth in Ayaawx
- Transfers of authority witnessed and confirmed
- Transfers of responsibility and authority
- Transparency of authority
- Tribal Adaawk
- Ts'msyen-Gitk'a'ata-Kyas Mediik-Waapm Txat'gwatk-P'teex-Lax Skiik D'zepk-Xskiik (Lekagyet Wii Gwinaal)
- Ts'msyen-Gitk'a'ata-Kyas Mediik-Waapm Txat'gwatk-P'teex-Lax Skiik D'zepk-Xskiik - (Lekagyet Wii Gwinaal)
- Tsmsyen Map Portal
- Tsm’syen National Assembly
- Tsm’syen national responses rooted in Ayaawx
- Types of Feasts
- UNDRIP, Section 25, and International Law
- Unceded Lands and Wilp Sovereignty
- Using international standards as shields, not ceilings
- Vests vs Robes
- Video Archive
- Waap
- Welcoming Returning Members
- What a Name Represents
- What happens when those responsibilities are violated
- What responsibilities accompany that authority
- When Chiefs Violate Ayaawx
- Why We Teach the Laws
- Why a house holds authority in a territory
- Wilp
- Wilp Decision-Making
- Wilp Membership
- Wilp and Waap Governance
- Witness Statements
- Witness confirmation
- Witnesses continue recognition
- Witnesses continue to recognize legitimacy
- Witnesses who confirm authority
- Witnessing
- Youth and Future Generations
- Youth and the Future Line
- Youth are essential to the survival of law.
- Youth are members of houses and clans
- Youth are not excluded from law, but are guided into it
- Youth do not replace elders or leadership roles.
- Youth learn governance by witnessing decisions and outcomes.
- Youth must be protected from premature burden
- Youth participate in governance through observation and involvement
- Ḵ'oomtk
- “No Chief Stands Alone”