| Description |
1 online resource (xx, 342 pages) : illustrations. |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
McGill-Queen's native and northern series ; 33
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McGill-Queen's native and northern series ; 33.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
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. |
| Summary |
"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. Nuqallaq, an Inuk, killed Robert Janes, a white man, and Canadian authorities made the unprecedented decision to put him and two accomplices on trial for murder, leading to the establishment of Canadian law enforcement in the North. Shelagh Grant shows that Canada's action was motivated more by international political concerns for establishing sovereignty over the Arctic than by the pursuit of justice."--Jacket. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Janes, Robert S., -1920 -- Relations with Inuit.
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Janes, Robert S., -1920. |
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Relations with Inuit. |
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Janes, Robert S., -1920. |
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Janes, Robert -- Et les Inuit. |
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Janes, Robert S. |
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Murder -- Nunavut -- Baffin Island.
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Murder. |
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Nunavut -- Baffin Island. |
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Trials (Murder) -- Nunavut -- Pond Inlet.
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Trials (Murder) |
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Nunavut -- Pond Inlet. |
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Criminal justice, Administration of -- Nunavut -- Pond Inlet -- History.
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Criminal justice, Administration of. |
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History. |
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Pond Inlet (Nunavut) -- Ethnic relations.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Grant, Shelagh D. (Shelagh Dawn), 1938- Arctic justice. Montréal, QC : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2002 (DLC) 2004300398 |
| ISBN |
9780773570030 (electronic book) |
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0773570039 (electronic book) |
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9780773523371 |
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0773523375 |
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0773529292 (paperback) |
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9780773529298 (paperback) |
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