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Hunger, horses, and government men : criminal law on the aboriginal plains, 1870-1905 / Shelley A. M. Gavigan.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gavigan, Shelley A. M.
- Series:
- Law and Society Series
- Law & society, 1496-4953
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Indians of North America--Criminal justice system--Saskatchewan--History.
- Indians of North America.
- Criminal law--Saskatchewan--History.
- Criminal law.
- Criminal courts--Saskatchewan--History.
- Criminal courts.
- Criminal justice, Administration of--Saskatchewan--History.
- Criminal justice, Administration of.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (301 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Vancouver : published by UBC Press : for the Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History, 2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- ""Contents""; ""Illustrations""; ""Foreword""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Introduction""; ""1 Legally Framing the Plains and the First Nations ""; ""2 “Of Course No One Saw Them�""; ""3 “Prisoner Never Gave Me Anything for What He Done�""; ""4 “Make a Better Indian of Him�""; ""5 Six Women, Six Stories""; ""Conclusion""; ""Afterword""; ""Notes""; ""Bibliography""
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-7748-2254-6
- OCLC:
- 808199779
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