Thou shalt do no murder : Inuit, injustice, and the Canadian Arctic / Kenn Harper.
Thou shalt do no murder : Inuit, injustice, and the Canadian Arctic / Kenn Harper.
By
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Harper, Kenn.
Publication Date
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2017
Publication Information
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Iqaluit, NU : Nunavut Arctic College Media,
Physical Description
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28 leaves of plates, 416 p. : col. ill.
Subject Term
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Inuit -- Canada -- Social conditions.
Inuit -- Newfoundland and Labrador.
Trials -- Newfoundland and Labrador.
Trials (Murder) -- Nunavut -- Pond Inlet.
Geographic Term
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Canada, Northern -- Social life and customs.
Bibliography Note
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 387-400) and index.
Summary
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A story of fur trade rivalry and duplicity, isolation and abandonment, greed and madness, and a struggle for the affections of an Inuit woman during a time of major social change in the High Arctic. Doubts over the validity of Canadian sovereignty and an official agenda to confirm that sovereignty added to the circumstances in which a guilty verdict against the leader of the Inuit accused was virtually assured. The show trial that took place in Pond Inlet in 1923 marked a collision of two cultures with vastly different conceptions of justice and conflict resolution. It marked an end to the Inuit traditional way of life and ushered in an era in which Inuit autonomy was supplanted by dependence on traders and police, and later missionaries. Author Kenn Harper lived in the Arctic for 50 years in Inuit communities in Canada and in Qaanaaq, Greenland.
Language
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English
ISBN
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9781897568491
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