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"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."--BOOK JACKET.
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Administration of Criminal justice, Murder, Trials (Murder), Relations with Inuit, Ethnic relations, History, Murder, canada, Criminal justice, administration of, Nunavut, Canada, ethnic relations, Nunavut, history, Et les Inuit, Meurtre, Procès (Meurtre), Justice pénale, Administration, Histoire, Pond, Goulet de (Nunavut), Relations interethniques, TRUE CRIME, General, Eskimo's, Strafprocessen, Moorden, Mord, Strafverfahren, Rechtssystem, Administration de la justice, Inuit, Procès pour meurtre, Trials, litigationPeople
Robert S. Janes (d. 1920)Places
Nunavut, Pond Inlet, Baffin Island, Pond Inlet (Nunavut)Edition | Availability |
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Arctic Justice: On Trial For Murder, Pond Inlet, 1923 (McGill-Queen's Native & Northern)
May 2005, McGill-Queen's University Press
Paperback
in English
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Arctic justice: on trial for murder, Pond Inlet, 1923
2002, McGill-Queen's University Press
in English
0773523375 9780773523371
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"The Arctic environment - its weather extremes and unique landforms -exerted a dominant influence on the lives of its indigenous peoples to produce a culture distinct from other hunters and gatherers in North America."
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