- Paperback: 368 pages
- Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press; 1 edition (April 7 2005)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0773529292
- ISBN-13: 978-0773529298
- Product Dimensions: 22.9 x 15.2 x 3 cm
- Shipping Weight: 544 g
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #238,079 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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"Masterful, compelling, and insightful. A superb work of ethnohistory that shows a great deal of respect for the historical traditions of the Inuit of Baffin Island." Clio Awards "Grant reveals a gulf in understanding that dwarfs the familiar two solitudes of French-English relations." MacLeans "A compelling account of cultural conflict and misperception." The Beaver "This is a fascinating story and a valuable contribution to the history of Northern Canada. Most significantly, because Grant has talked to the Inuit, this is the first time that the story of the relations between Inuit and newcomers has been told from the Inuit perspective." William Morrison, history, University of Northern British Columbia and the author of True North: The Yukon and Northwest Territories "Grant provides a riveting illustration of how Inuit traditionally handled dangerous people in their society. She gives an excellent and dramatic account of the trial, the circumstances behind it, and the tragic aftermath." Dorothy Harley Eber, author of When the Whalers Were Up North and Images of Justice
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Although there was no Canadian law enforcement in the Eastern High Arctic when a crazed white fur trader was killed by an Inuk, authorities put Nuqallaq and two other Baffin Island Inuit on trial. The Canadian government saw Robert Janes's death as murder; the Inuit saw it as removing a threat from their society according to custom. Nuqallaq was sentenced to ten years hard labour in Stony Mountain Penitentiary where he contracted tuberculosis. He died shortly after being returned to Pond Inlet. Shelagh Grant's award-winning "Arctic Justice" is a masterly reconstruction of these tragic events at the intersection of Inuit and Canadian justice. Combining original Inuit oral testimony with archival history, Grant sheds light on the conflicting values and perceptions of two disparate cultures. She shows how the Canadian government's decision was determined by fear and political concerns for establishing sovereignty over the Arctic. "Arctic Justice" is also a social history of North Baffin Island in the twentieth century with vivid portraits of Janes, Captain J.E. Bernier of the CGS Arctic, investigating RCMP officer A. H. Joy, and the remarkable Nuqallaq, his wife Ataguttiaq, and the Inuit of North Baffin Island.
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The Arctic environment - its weather extremes and unique landforms -exerted a dominant influence on the lives of its indigenous peoples to produce a culture distinct from other hunters and gatherers in North America. Read the first page
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A fascinating and carefully detailed account,
By Midwest Book Review (Oregon, WI USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Arctic Justice: On Trial for Murder, Pond Inlet, 1923 (Hardcover)
Meticulously researched and informatively presented by Shelagh D. Grant (Adjunct Professor of History and Canadian Studies, Trent University), Arctic Justice: On Trial For Murder, Pond Inlet, 1923 is the true and accurate historical account of how the Canadian government asserted its power and control in the High Arctic. When an unwise trapper threatened to kill the sled dogs of a Baffin Island Inuit group, the natives followed the Inuit customary law that individuals who threaten the community must be killed, -- and then executed him. For the first time, Canadian law authorities put the individual Inuit who carried out the sentence and two accomplices of his on trial for murder in a move, argues the author, that was not meant to bring justice to the Inuit community, but rather to establish Canadian sovereignty over the Arctic. A fascinating and carefully detailed account of law, history, politics, and the erosion of Native American sovereignty, Arctic Justice is an original and very highly recommended contribution to Native American Studies and Canadian History reference collections.
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