Hunger, Horses, and Government Men
Criminal Law on the Aboriginal Plains, 1870-1905
Seiten
2013
University of British Columbia Press (Verlag)
978-0-7748-2253-4 (ISBN)
University of British Columbia Press (Verlag)
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Tells the complex story of the relationship between Plains Indians and Canadian criminal law as it took root in their land.
Scholars often accept without question that the Indian Act (1876) criminalized First Nations. In this illuminating book, Shelley Gavigan argues that the notion of criminalization captures neither the complexities of Aboriginal participation in the criminal courts nor the significance of the Indian Act as a form of law.
Gavigan draws on court files, police and penitentiary records, and newspaper accounts and insights from critical criminology to interrogate state formation and criminal law in the Saskatchewan region of the North-West Territories between 1870 and 1905. By focusing on Aboriginal people’s participation in the courts rather than on narrow categories such as “the state” and “the accused,” Gavigan allows Aboriginal defendants, witnesses, and informants to emerge in vivid detail and tell the story in their own terms. Their experiences stand as evidence that the criminal law and the Indian Act operated in complex and contradictory ways that included both the mediation and the enforcement of relations of inequality.
Scholars often accept without question that the Indian Act (1876) criminalized First Nations. In this illuminating book, Shelley Gavigan argues that the notion of criminalization captures neither the complexities of Aboriginal participation in the criminal courts nor the significance of the Indian Act as a form of law.
Gavigan draws on court files, police and penitentiary records, and newspaper accounts and insights from critical criminology to interrogate state formation and criminal law in the Saskatchewan region of the North-West Territories between 1870 and 1905. By focusing on Aboriginal people’s participation in the courts rather than on narrow categories such as “the state” and “the accused,” Gavigan allows Aboriginal defendants, witnesses, and informants to emerge in vivid detail and tell the story in their own terms. Their experiences stand as evidence that the criminal law and the Indian Act operated in complex and contradictory ways that included both the mediation and the enforcement of relations of inequality.
Shelley A.M. Gavigan is a professor of law at Osgoode Hall Law School and a member of the graduate faculties in Law, Socio-Legal Studies, and Women’s Studies at York University.
Introduction: One Warrior’s Legal History
1 Legally Framing the Plains and the First Nations
2 “Of Course No One Saw Them”: Aboriginal Accused in the Criminal Court
3 “Prisoner Never Gave Me Anything for What He Done”: Aboriginal Voices in the Criminal Court
4 “Make a Better Indian of Him”: Indian Policy and the Criminal Court
5 Six Women, Six Stories
Conclusion
Afterword: A Methodological Note on Sources and Data
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Reihe/Serie | Law and Society |
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Zusatzinfo | 28 b&w photos, 2 maps, 3 tables |
Verlagsort | Vancouver |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
Gewicht | 420 g |
Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte |
Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte | |
Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht | |
Recht / Steuern ► Rechtsgeschichte | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
ISBN-10 | 0-7748-2253-8 / 0774822538 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-7748-2253-4 / 9780774822534 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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