Arctic Justice : On Trial For Murder, Pond Inlet, 1923

Grant, Shelagh D.

Montreal, QC - Kingston, ON, 2002

By McGill-Queens University Press
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Hardcover with dust jacket, 342 pages, 6.5x9.5 in., [16x24 cm.], B&W photographs.
Condition

Front endpaper with a lengthy ink gift inscription and the stamped coordinates of a bookseller; upper edge with faint dust-staining. Dust jacket with moderate surface wear.
Notes

Account of the 1923 Pond Inlet murder trial of Nuqallaq and two other Inuit following the death of fur trader Robert Janes in the Eastern Arctic. Drawing upon archival sources and Inuit oral testimony, the volume examines the collision of Inuit customary law and Canadian criminal justice, while also discussing questions of Arctic sovereignty, RCMP activity, and social conditions on North Baffin Island in the early twentieth century.

Notes adapted from the publisher's description.
ISBN

9780773523371
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