"The authors are also immensely indebted to Vera Roy who impeccably translated into English the French language manuscript on which this book is based"--ECIP Acknowledgements.

"This book was written by three jurists and is based primarily on data gathered in Africa (n South Africa, Burundi, Côte d'Ivoire and Zambia), Canada (Atikamekw Nehirowisiwok, the Innu and the Secwepemc), Central Europe (Roma communities in Romania) and the South Pacific (Roma communities in Romania) by multidisciplinary teams involved in a research partnership called The State and Indigenous Legal Cultures: Law in Search of Legitimacy ... Funded primarily by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada and the Agence universitaire de la Francophonie, the project, also known as Legitimus, is led by the Canada Research Chair on Legal Diversity and Indigenous Studies of the Faculty of Law of the University of Ottawa... --ECIP page 10.