Arctic justice : on trial for murder, Pond Inlet, 1923 /
"Arctic Justice recounts a critical episode in how Canada came to control its High Arctic. In 1922 a mad trapper threatened to kill the sled dogs of a group of Baffin Island Inuit and, following the Inuit customary law that individuals who endanger the community must be killed, be was executed....
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Montreal, Que. :
McGill-Queen's University Press,
©2002.
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Colección: | McGill-Queen's native and northern series ;
33. |
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- North Baffin to 1905
- Sovereignty and justice, 1874-1920
- Gold seekers and fur traders, 1912-1919
- Sakirmiaviniq
- Police investigations
- Awaiting judgment
- Trial by jury
- To prison and return
- Aftermath
- Arctic justice revisited.