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Hunger, horses, and government men : criminal law on the aboriginal plains, 1870-1905. Shelley A.M. Gavigan

Gavigan, Shelley Ann Marie [1951-...] cop. 2012

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Hunger, horses, and government men : criminal law on the aboriginal plains, 1870-1905. Shelley A.M. Gavigan
Titres liés: Collection :Law and society series
Auteur: Gavigan, Shelley Ann Marie [1951-...]
Éditeur: Vancouver : UBC Press, cop. 2012
Sujets: Indians of North America -- Criminal justice system -- History -- Saskatchewan;
Indians of North America -- Legal status, laws, etc -- Saskatchewan;
Criminal law -- History -- Saskatchewan;
Criminal courts -- History -- Saskatchewan;
Criminal justice, Administration of -- History -- Saskatchewan;
Native peoples -- Legal status, laws, etc -- Saskatchewan;
Native peoples -- Government relations -- Saskatchewan;
Indiens d'Amérique -- Statut juridique -- Canada -- Saskatchewan (Canada);
Droit pénal -- Histoire -- Saskatchewan (Canada);
Tribunaux criminels -- Histoire -- Canada -- Saskatchewan (Canada);
Justice pénale -- Administration -- Histoire -- Canada -- Saskatchewan (Canada);
Autochtones -- Statut juridique -- Canada -- Saskatchewan (Canada);
Autochtones -- Relations avec l'État -- Canada -- Saskatchewan (Canada)
Notes: Bibliogr. p. 253-267. Index
Legally framing the plains and the first nations "Of course no one saw them" : aboriginal accused in the criminal court "Prisoner never gave me anything for what he done" : aboriginal voices in the criminal court "Make a better indian of him" : Indian policy and the criminal court Six women, six stories
Contient: Legally framing the plains and the first nations "Of course no one saw them" : aboriginal accused in the criminal court "Prisoner never gave me anything for what he done" : aboriginal voices in the criminal court "Make a better indian of him" : Indian policy and the criminal court Six women, six stories
Résumé: Scholars often accept without question that Canada's 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 courts nor the significance of the Indian Act as a form of law. Gavigan uses records of ordinary cases from the lower courts and insights from critical criminology and traditional legal history 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 legal 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 -- captured in court files, police and penitentiary records, and newspaper accounts -- reveal that the criminal law and the Indian Act operated in complex and contradictory ways. By showing that the criminal courts were as likely to include acts of mediation as coercion, Hunger, Horses, and Government Men takes the study of criminal law and criminalization in a new direction, one that challenges conventional wisdom and popular images of relations of power and discrimination in the courts
Langue: Anglais
Date d'édition: cop. 2012
Identifiant: 978-0-7748-2252-7 ; 0-7748-2252-X
Desc. matérielle: 1 vol. (xvi-274 p.) : ill., carte, portr., jaquette ill. en coul. ; 24 cm

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