White man's law
native people in nineteenth-century Canadian jurisprudence
by Sidney L. Harring and Sidney L. Harring
"In the nineteenth century many Canadians took pride in what they regarded as this country's liberal treatment of Indians. In this thorough reinvestigation of Canadian legal history, Sidney L. Harring sets the record straight, showing how Canada has continually 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."--BOOK JACKET.
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White Man's Law: Native People in Nineteenth-Century Canadian Jurisprudence
2019, University of Toronto Press
in English
1442683368 9781442683365
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White man's law: native people in nineteenth-century Canadian jurisprudence
1998, Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History by University of Toronto Press
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in English
0802005039 9780802005038
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"Writing in 1827, Sir George Ramsay, Earl of Dalhousie, governor-in-chief of Canada, was impressed by the strength of the legal traditions of the Indians, and, as a matter of sound policy, he urged that their law be respected."
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [283]-410) and index.
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