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by Denise Breton and Stephen Lehman
Chrysalis Books, 274 pages
Review by Sharon Witmer
American legal principles based on English common law reflect the European,
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The Mystic Heart of Justice
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Making Peace, the Navajo Way
The peacemaker resolution process was locked away in memory for many years. Then, during a legal proceeding, an elder mentioned, “we used to do it this way … ” The tribal court justices, sensitive to the shortcomings of the imposed European system, decided to incorporate the old peacemaker way into the tribal court system. It was re-instituted in 1982.
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Emigdio Ballon: Sowing the seeds of independence
“Always I was in the fields with my grandmother and grandfather. I would walk with my grandfather for days to trade seeds and food for other seeds and food and clothes. My grandfather taught me that when you have seeds, you have life,” says Emigdio Ballon, a Quechua Indian from Bolivia, and the Director of Agronomy for Seeds of Change.
