Navajo conceptions of justice in the peacemaker court

Journal of Social Philosophy

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 532-546

  Wall, Barbara E ^a  

^a VILLANOVA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 33645731383     PISSN: 00472786     EISSN: 14679833     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/0047-2786.00113     Document Type: Article

References (21)

1. Paul G. Zolbrod, Diná bahané: The Navajo Creation Story (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1984), 274-75.
2. Gary Witherspoon, Navajo Kinship and Marriage (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1975), 3-28.
3. The dramatic difference between Western traditions of spirituality and Amerindian traditions is highlighted in Achiel Peelman's Christ Is a Native American (Maryknoll, N. J.: Orbis Books, 1995).
4. See also Joseph Epes Brown, The Spiritual Legacy of the American Indian (New York: Crossroad, 1995)
5. and Thomas Berry, "The Indian Future", Cross Currents 26(1976):132-42.
6. Gary Witherspoon, Language and Art in the Navajo Universe (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1977), 26.
7. There are many discussions and controversies over what constitutes the notion and function of prayer in Navajo ontology. Trudy Griffin-Pierce in Earth Is My Mother, Sky Is My Father: Space, Time, and Astronomy in Navajo Sandpainting (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1992), 33-34
8. See James Zion and Philmer Bluehouse, "Hózhóoji Naat'aanii: The Navajo Justice and Harmony Ceremony", Mediation Quarterly 10, no. 4(Summer 1993):327-37.
9. John Farella, The Main Stalk: A Synthesis of Navajo Philosophy (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1984), 46.
10. Leland C. Wyman, Blessingway (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1970), 112.
11. Farella, The Main Stalk, 46.
12. Gladys A. Reichard, Prayer: The Compulsive Word, American Ethnological Society Monograph 7 (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1944), 33.
13. Zolbrod, Diné bahane', 384-85.
14. Wyman, Blessingway, 7.
15. Robert W. Young and William Morgan, Sr., The Navajo Language: A Grammar and Colloquial Dictionary (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1987), 462.
16. Clyde K. Kluckhohn, "The Philosophy of the Navajo Indians", in Ideological Differences and World Order, ed. F. S. C. Northrop (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1949), 368-70.
17. Witherspoon, Language and Art, 24.
18. Reichard, Prayer, 4-5
19. James W. Zion and Nelson J. McCabe, Navajo Peacemaker Court Manual: A Guide to the Navajo Peacemaker Court for Judges, Community Leaders and Court Personnel (Window Rock, Az.: Navajo Nation, 1982), 96-97.
20. James W. Zion, "The Navajo Peacemaker Court: Deference to the Old and Accommodation of the New", American Indian Law Review 89, no. 21(1983):89-109.
21. Robert Yazzie, "Life Comes from It: Navajo Justice Concepts", New Mexico Law Review 24, no. 2(Spring 1994):176.