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Andrew S. Thompson, On the Side of the Angels: Canada and the United Nation Commission on Human Rights, Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2017. Pp. ix + 193. $89.95 cloth (ISBN 9780774835039); $29.95 paper (ISBN 9780774835046).

that makes up the legal traditions of Indigenous people”(2). Jagodinsky herein makes several important interventions in the field of Indigenous and Western legal history. Her focus on territorial and state legal systems, rather than the federal records that are most often consulted in Indigenous historiography, opens questions about how access to land was facilitated outside of reservation boundaries. Historians of gender, borderlands, and colonialism will all find this work important in its careful investigation of the relationships between intimate local dynamics and state and federal laws. Jagodinsky’s vivid case studies will provide invaluable teaching tools to generate nuanced and engaging conversations around how individuals negotiated and challenged various legal orders and historic change. Her writing is at times very dense with detail, but by working through this density, the reader is rewarded with a rich picture of the interconnected personal and political relationships that influenced each of her case studies. The extraordinary Twanas, Klallam, Salish, and Surem women with whom Jagodinsky opens her book encountered shape-shifting beings and were able to interpret the words of warning a talking tree brought to their communities. Likewise, the women to whom Jagodinsky introduces us played vital roles in “encountering and engendering change and conflict” (2) as they faced threatening and violent agents of change in their own lives. They returned to their children, their communities, and their lands bearing new strategies for survival.