White man's law : native people in nineteenth-century Canadian jurisprudence / Sidney L. Harring.
TITLE:
White man's law : native people in nineteenth-century Canadian jurisprudence / Sidney L. Harring.
Publication Date:
1998
Publication Information:
Toronto : University of Toronto Press,
Physical Description:
xv, 434 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., maps.
Bibliography Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:
In the nineteenth century many Canadians took pride in what they regarded as this country's liberal treatment of Indians. In this thorough reinvestigation of Canadian legal history, Sidney L. Harring sets the record straight, showing how Canada has continually denied aboriginal peoples even the most basic civil rights.
Language:
English
ISBN:
9780802005038
