Witness to the Human Rights Tribunals

Witness to the Human Rights Tribunals offers a behind-the-scenes account of the difficulties facing Indigenous people in human rights tribunals, and the struggles of experts to keep their own testimony from being undermined.

Witness to the Human Rights Tribunals offers a behind-the-scenes account of the difficulties facing Indigenous people in human rights tribunals, and the struggles of experts to keep their own testimony from being undermined.

Bruce Granville Miller is a professor of anthropology at the University of British Columbia. He has served as an expert witness in numerous human rights tribunal cases and his work with Indigenous communities in the context of presenting oral history has been particularly instrumental. Among his many publications are Oral History on Trial: Recognizing Aboriginal Narratives in the Courts and “Be of Good Mind”: Essays on the Coast Salish.

engagingly practical instead of theoretical.

Harry Hobbs, University of Technology Sydney:

"[Miller’s] approach is valuable. It allows critical details that would be ignored by lawyers and case reports to be recorded"

Daniel L. Boxberger, Western Washington University:

"This book is a masterful analysis of the ongoing struggle over Indigenous litigation in Canada and the US, written by one of the leading experts on the subject."

Reem A. Bahdi, associate professor, Dean of Law, University of Windsor:

Miller’s expertise and experience in this area are extremely significant. His insights in this book are invaluable.

Larry Nesper, author of The Walleye War: The Struggle for Ojibwe Spearfishing and Treaty Rights:

A finely grained methodological tour de force, Witness to the Human Rights Tribunals brilliantly details the distance between Indigenous people’s concerns and the capacity of the judicial system to redress wrongs.