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Navajo Courts and Navajo Common Law: A Tradition of Tribal Self-Governance

Raymond D. Austin · University of Minnesota Press · 2009

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Raymond D. Austin
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2026-09-01
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By a former justice of the Navajo Nation Supreme Court. ISBN 9780816665365 (paperback).

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EstablishedNavajo courts apply Navajo common law as the law of preference, judges are required by the Fundamental Laws of the Diné to apply Navajo values in their decisions, and the judiciary has revived peacemaking, a traditional Navajo way of resolving disputes.