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White Man's Law: Native People in Nineteenth-Century Canadian Jurisprudence (The Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History Series) - Hardcover

Harring, Sidney L.

 
9780802005038: White Man's Law: Native People in Nineteenth-Century Canadian Jurisprudence (The Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History Series)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0802005039 ISBN 13: 9780802005038
Verlag: University of Toronto Press, 1998

Inhaltsangabe

In the nineteenth century many Canadians took pride in their country's policy of liberal treatment of Indians. In this thorough reinvestigation of Canadian legal history, Sidney L. Harring sets the record straight, showing how Canada has consistently denied Aboriginal peoples even the most basic civil rights.

Drawing on scores of nineteenth-century legal cases, Harring reveals that colonial and early Canadian judges were largely ignorant of British policy concerning Indians and their lands. He also provides an account of the remarkable tenacity of First Nations in continuing their own legal traditions despite obstruction by the settler society that came to dominate them.

The recognition of 'pre-existing Aboriginal rights' in the Constitutional Act of 1982 has shown that Aboriginal legal traditions have a definite place in contemporary Canadian law. This study clearly demonstrates that Canadian Native legal culture requires further study by scholars and more serious attention by courts in rendering decisions.

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Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Sidney L. Harring is Professor of Law at CUNY Law School, Queen's College, City University of New York. He is the author of Crow Dog's Case: American Indian Soverignty, Tribal Law, and United States Law in the Nineteenth Century (Cambridge University Press, 1994).

SIDNEY L. HARRING is Professor of Law at CUNY Law School, Queen's College, City University of New York. He is the author of Crow Dog's Case: American Indian Sovereignty, Tribal Law, and United States Law in the Nineteenth Century.

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'Harring has given us a most penetrating and comprehensive account of the treatment of Indians in nineteenth-century Canadian courts. He illuminates brilliantly how the judges' application of the rule of law, an essential element in the 'liberal treatment' of Indians, can serve as a blunt instrument for the dispossession and subjugation of Aboriginal peoples'

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Verlag
University of Toronto Press
Erscheinungsdatum
1998
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0802005039
ISBN 13 
9780802005038
Einband
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Anzahl der Seiten
488
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