White Man's Law : Native People in Nineteenth-Century Canadian Jurisprudence /
"In the nineteenth century many Canadians took pride in what they regarded as this country's liberal treatment of Indians. In this thorough reinvestigation of Canadian legal history, Sidney L. Harring sets the record straight, showing how Canada has continually denied aboriginal peoples ev...
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Idioma: | Inglés |
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Toronto, Ont. :
Published for the Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History by University of Toronto Press,
1998.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- ""CONTENTS""; ""FOREWORD""; ""ACKNOWLEDGMENTS""; ""Introduction""; ""1 'The Privilege of British Justice': Colonialism and Native Rights""; ""2 'A Condescension Lost on Those People': The Six Nations' Grand River Lands, 1784�1860""; ""3 'The Common Law Is Not Part Savage and Part Civilized': Chief Justice John Beverley Robinson and Native Rights""; ""4 'The Migration of These Simple People from Equity to Law': Native Rights in Ontario Courts""; ""5 'Entirely Independent in Their Villages': Criminal Law and Indians in Upper Canada""
- ""6 'A More Than Usually Degraded Indian Type': St. Catherine's Milling and Indian Title Cases""""7 'Canadian Courts Are Open to Enforce Their Contracts': Canadian Law and the Legal Culture of Ontario Indians""; ""8 'The Indians Are a Perseverant Race': Indian Law in Quebec and Atlantic Canada""; ""9 'Can We Be Free under the Law of Queen Victoria on Top of Our Land?': Indians and the Law in British Columbia""; ""10 'The Enforcement of the Extreme Penalty': Canadian Law and the Ojibwa-Cree Spirit World""; ""11 'No Recognized Law': Canadian Law and the Prairie Indians""; ""Conclusion""
- ""Notes""""illustration credits""; ""index""; ""a""; ""b""; ""c""; ""d""; ""e""; ""f""; ""g""; ""h""; ""i""; ""j""; ""k""; ""l""; ""m""; ""n""; ""o""; ""p""; ""q""; ""r""; ""s""; ""t""; ""u""; ""v""; ""w""; ""y""