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Record #161588:
Arctic justice: on trial for murder, Pond Inlet, 1923 / Shelagh D. Grant.
Title: | Arctic justice: on trial for murder, Pond Inlet, 1923 / Shelagh D. Grant. |
Author(s): | Grant, Shelagh D. |
Date: | 2002. |
Publisher: | Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press |
Abstract: | Revealing account of trial of Baffin Inuk Nuqallaq for murder of Robert Janes, who threatened to kill sledge dogs and was therefore executed by Nuqallaq according to Inuit customary law. Case was motivated by desire of Candian government to demonstrate sovereignty by providing test case application of Canadian criminal law. |
Keywords: | 343 -- Law, criminal. 34.096 -- Trials. 340.14 -- Native justice. Unwritten law. 323.1 -- National and ethnic minorities: Eskimo. 341.223 -- Territorial claims: Canadian. 92 -- Biographies: Janes, Robert S. 93 -- History. 93"192" -- 1920-1929. V -- History. (*41) -- Canada. (*440) -- Northwest Territories. (*462) -- Baffin Island. |
Location(s): | SCO: SPRI-SHF: (*41) : 343 |
ISBN: | 0773523375 |
SPRI record no.: | 161588 |
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