03707nam 2200661Ia 450 991078590910332120221202100257.00-7748-2254-610.59962/9780774822541(CKB)2670000000275241(EBL)3412819(SSID)ssj0000782200(PQKBManifestationID)12323645(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000782200(PQKBWorkID)10745871(PQKB)11335188(MiAaPQ)EBC3412819(MiAaPQ)EBC3282973(Au-PeEL)EBL3412819(CaPaEBR)ebr10607313(OCoLC)808199779(DE-B1597)662328(DE-B1597)9780774822541(EXLCZ)99267000000027524120120816d2012 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrHunger, horses, and government men[electronic resource] criminal law on the Aboriginal plains, 1870-1905 /Shelley A. M. GaviganVancouver published by UBC Press for the Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History20121 online resource (301 p.)Law & society,1496-4953Description based upon print version of record.0-7748-2252-X Includes bibliographical references and index.""Contents""; ""Illustrations""; ""Foreword""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Introduction""; ""1 Legally Framing the Plains and the First Nations ""; ""2 “Of Course No One Saw Them�""; ""3 “Prisoner Never Gave Me Anything for What He Done�""; ""4 “Make a Better Indian of Him�""; ""5 Six Women, Six Stories""; ""Conclusion""; ""Afterword""; ""Notes""; ""Bibliography""Scholars often accept without question that the 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 criminal courts nor the significance of the Indian Act as a form of law. Gavigan draws on court files, police and penitentiary records, and newspaper accounts and insights from critical criminology to interrogate state formation and criminal law in the Saskatchewan region of the North-West Territories between 1870 and 1905. By focusing on Aboriginal people's participation in the courts rather than on narrow categories such as "the state" and "the accused," Gavigan allows Aboriginal defendants, witnesses, and informants to emerge in vivid detail and tell the story in their own terms. Their experiences stand as evidence that the criminal law and the Indian Act operated in complex and contradictory ways that included both the mediation and the enforcement of relations of inequality.Law and Society SeriesIndians of North AmericaCriminal justice systemSaskatchewanHistoryCriminal lawSaskatchewanHistoryCriminal courtsSaskatchewanHistoryCriminal justice, Administration ofSaskatchewanHistoryIndians of North AmericaCriminal justice systemHistory.Criminal lawHistory.Criminal courtsHistory.Criminal justice, Administration ofHistory.345Gavigan Shelley A. M1534620Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History.MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910785909103321Hunger, horses, and government men3782331UNINA