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White Man's Law
Native People in Nineteenth-Century Canadian Jurisprudence
- 488 pages
- English
- PDF
- Available on iOS & Android
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About this book
In this sweeping re-investigation of Canadian legal history, Harring shows that Canada has historically dispossessed Aboriginal peoples of even the most basic civil rights.
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Table of contents
- Contents
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1. The Privilege of British Justice': Colonialism and Native Rights
- 2. 'A Condescension Lost on Those People': The Six Nations' Grand River Lands, 1784-1860
- 3. The Common Law Is Not Part Savage and Part Civilized': Chief Justice John Beverley Robinson and Native Rights
- 4. The Migration of These Simple People from Equity to Law': Native Rights in Ontario Courts
- 5. 'Entirely Independent in Their Villages': Criminal Law and Indians in Upper Canada
- 6. 'A More Than Usually Degraded Indian Type': St. Catherine's Milling and Indian Title Cases
- 7. 'Canadian Courts Are Open to Enforce Their Contracts': Canadian Law and the Legal Culture of Ontario Indians
- 8. The Indians Are a Perseverant Race': Indian Law in Quebec and Atlantic Canada
- 9. 'Can We Be Free under the Law of Queen Victoria on Top of Our Land?': Indians and the Law in British Columbia
- 10. The Enforcement of the Extreme Penalty': Canadian Law and the Ojibwa-Cree Spirit World
- 11. 'No Recognized Law': Canadian Law and the Prairie Indians
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Photo Credits
- Index