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Some Indigenous histories are preserved in stories, songs, ceremonies and elder testimony that are passed down orally rather than with written records. These histories can constitute important evidence of past events. But they re sometimes ruled inadmissible as evidence in the American justice system.
That s what happened when lawyers for the Jemez Pueblo presented oral histories as proof of its aboriginal claim to land in the now federally managed Valles Caldera National Preserve in Northern New Mexico s Jemez Mountains. A federal district judge dismissed those histories under what s known as the hearsay rule, and in 2019, struck down the Pueblo s land claim.
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Some Indigenous histories are preserved in stories, songs, ceremonies and elder testimony that are passed down orally - rather than with written records. These histories can constitute important evidence of past events. But they re sometimes ruled inadmissible as evidence in the American justice system.
That s what happened when lawyers for the Jemez Pueblo presented oral histories as proof of its aboriginal claim to land in the now federally managed Valles Caldera National Preserve in Northern New Mexico s Jemez Mountains. A federal district judge dismissed those histories under what s known as the hearsay rule, and in 2019, struck down the Pueblo s land claim.
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