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9780774822534: Hunger, Horses, and Government Men: Criminal Law On The Aboriginal Plains, 1870-1905
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Scholars often accept without question that Canada's Indian Act (1876) criminalized First Nations. In this illuminating book, Shelley Gavigan argues that the notion of criminalization captures neither the complexities of Aboriginal participation in the courts nor the significance of the Indian Act as a form of law. Hunger, Horses, and Government Men takes the study of criminal law and criminalization in a new direction.

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Shelley A.M. Gavigan is a professor of law at OsgoodeHall Law School and a member of the graduate faculties in Law,Socio-Legal Studies, and Women's Studies at York University.

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Scholars often accept without question that Canada's"Indian Act" (1876) criminalized First Nations. In thisilluminating book, Shelley Gavigan argues that the notion ofcriminalization captures neither the complexities of Aboriginalparticipation in the courts nor the significance of the "IndianAct" as a form of law. Gavigan uses records of ordinary cases from the lower courts andinsights from critical criminology and traditional legal history tointerrogate state formation and criminal law in the Saskatchewan regionof the North-West Territories between 1870 and 1905. By focusing onAboriginal people's participation in the courts rather than onnarrow legal categories such as "the state" and "theaccused," Gavigan allows Aboriginal defendants, witnesses, andinformants to emerge in vivid detail and tell the story in their ownterms. Their experiences -- captured in court files, police andpenitentiary records, and newspaper accounts -- reveal that thecriminal law and the "Indian Act" operated in complex andcontradictory ways. By showing that the criminal courts were as likely to include actsof mediation as coercion, "Hunger, Horses, and Government Men"takes the study of criminal law and criminalization in a new direction, one that challenges conventional wisdom and popular images of relationsof power and discrimination in the courts.Shelley A.M. Gavigan is a professor of law at OsgoodeHall Law School and a member of the graduate faculties in Law, Socio-Legal Studies, and Women's Studies at York University.

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  • EditoreUniv of British Columbia Pr
  • Data di pubblicazione2013
  • ISBN 10 0774822538
  • ISBN 13 9780774822534
  • RilegaturaCopertina flessibile
  • Numero di pagine274
  • Valutazione libreria

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9780774822527: Hunger, Horses, and Government Men: Criminal Law on the Aboriginal Plains, 1870-1905

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ISBN 10:  ISBN 13:  9780774822527
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