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The laws and the land : the settler colonial invasion of Kahnawà:ke in nineteenth-century Canada / Daniel Rück.

Van Pelt Library KIC5532.7 .R83 2021
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Rück, Daniel (Professor), author.
Contributor:
Rosengarten Family Fund.
Series:
Law and society series (Vancouver, B.C.)
Law and society series
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Canada. Indian Act.
Canada.
Indian Act (Canada).
Indigenous peoples--Land tenure--Québec (Province)--Kahnawake.
Indigenous peoples.
Land tenure--Québec (Province)--Kahnawake--History.
Land tenure.
Kahnawake (Québec)--Race relations--History.
Kahnawake (Québec).
Kahnawake (Québec)--Ethnic relations--History.
Kahnawake (Québec)--History--19th century.
Settler colonialism--Canada.
Settler colonialism.
Indians of North America--Legal status, laws, etc--Québec (Province)--Kahnawake.
Indians of North America.
Indians of North America--Québec (Province)--Kahnawake--Government relations.
Ethnic relations.
Indians of North America--Government relations.
Indians of North America--Legal status, laws, etc.
Indigenous peoples--Land tenure.
Race relations.
Québec--Kahnawake.
Genre:
History.
Physical Description:
xv, 312 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
Place of Publication:
Vancouver, BC : UBC Press for the Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History, [2021]
Summary:
"As the settler state of Canada expanded into Indigenous lands, two traditions clashed in a bruising series of asymmetrical encounters over land use and ownership. One site of conflict was Kahnawà:ke. The Laws and the Land delineates the route from pre-contact and early contact ways of sharing the land to the establishment of Kahnawà:ke within the French seigneurial system, land use under Kahnawà:ke law, and the colonizing push to impose the Indian Act and private property - little short of an invasion spearheaded by bureaucrats. This ... book is connected to larger issues of membership in Indigenous nations, communal versus individual property rights, governance, and inequality."-- Provided by publisher.
Contents:
Machine generated contents note: 1. Kahnawa:ke and Canada: Relationships of Laws and Lands
2. "Whereas the Seigniory of Sault St. Louis Is the Property of the Iroquois Nation": Dissidents, Property, and Power, 1790
1815
3. "Out of the Beaten Track": Before the Railroad, 1815
50
4. "In What Legal Anarchy Will Questions of Property Soon Find Themselves": The Era of Confederation, 1850
75
5. "The Consequences of This Promiscuous Ownership": Wood and the Indian Act, 1867
83
6. "Equal to an Ordnance Map of the Old Country": The Walbank Survey, 1880
93
7. "It Is Necessary to Follow the Custom of the Reserve Which Is Contrary to Law": Rupture and Continuity, 1885
1900.
Notes:
Co-published by the Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-300) and index.
Local Notes:
Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.
Other Format:
Online version: Rück, Daniel (Professor) Laws and the land.
ISBN:
9780774867436
0774867434
OCLC:
1243350268

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