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Thou shalt do no murder : Inuit, injustice, and the Canadian Arctic / Kenn Harper.
Van Pelt Library HV9960.C2 H37 2017
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Harper, Kenn, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Criminal justice, Administration of--Canada, Northern.
- Criminal justice, Administration of.
- Trials (Murder)--Nunavut--Pond Inlet.
- Trials (Murder).
- Inuit--Legal status, laws, etc--Canada, Northern.
- Inuit.
- Inuit--Canada, Northern--Social life and customs--20th century.
- Inuit--Legal status, laws, etc.
- Inuit--Social life and customs.
- Social conditions.
- Manners and customs.
- Canada, Northern--Social conditions--20th century.
- Canada, Northern.
- Northern Canada.
- Nunavut--Pond Inlet.
- Physical Description:
- 416 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
- regular print
- Place of Publication:
- Iqaluit, NU : Nunavut Arctic College Media, [2017]
- Summary:
- "This is a story of fur trade rivalry and duplicity, isolation and abandonment, greed and madness, and a struggle for the affections of an Inuit woman during a time of major social change in the High Arctic. Doubts over the validity of Canadian sovereignty and an official agenda to confirm that sovereignty added to the circumstances in which a guilty verdict against the leader of the Inuit accused was virtually assured. The show trial that took place in Pond Inlet in 1923 marked a collision of two cultures with vastly different conceptions of justice and conflict resolution. It marked an end to the Inuit traditional way of life and ushered in an era in which Inuit autonomy was supplanted by dependence on traders and police, and later missionaries. Kenn Harper draws on a combination of Inuit oral history, archival research, and his own knowledge acquired through 50 years in the Arctic to create a compelling story of justice and injustice in the Canadian far north."-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Part 1: Trading With The Inuit
- Part 2: The Killing Of Robert Janes
- Part 3: "The Immoral Ethic Of Conquest"
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781897568491
- 1897568495
- OCLC:
- 981934465
- Publisher Number:
- 99979060483
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