White Man's Law

by Harring, Sidney L.

• ISBN13: 9780802005038
• ISBN10: 0802005039
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1998-11-01
• Publisher: Univ of Toronto Pr

Summary

In this sweeping re-investigation of Canadian legal history, Harring shows that Canada has historically dispossessed Aboriginal peoples of even the most basic civil rights.

Author Biography

SIDNEY L. HARRING is Professor of Law at CUNY Law School, Queen's College, City University of New York. He is the author of Crow Dog's Case: American Indian Sovereignty, Tribal Law, and United States Law in the Nineteenth Century.

Table of Contents

Foreword	ix
Acknowledgments	xi
Introduction	3	(13)
`The Privilege of British Justice': Colonialism and Native Rights	16	(19)
`A Condescension Lost on Those People': The Six Nations' Grand River Lands, 1784--1860	35	(27)
`The Common Law Is Not Part Savage and Part Civilized': Chief Justice John Beverley Robinson and Native Rights	62	(29)
`The Migration of These Simple People from Equity to Law': Native Rights in Ontario Courts	91	(18)
`Entirely Independent in Their Villages': Criminal Law and Indians in Upper Canada	109	(16)
`A More Than Usually Degraded Indian Type': St. Catherine's Milling and Indian Title Cases	125	(23)
`Canadian Courts Are Open to Enforce Their Contracts': Canadian Law and the Legal Culture of Ontario Indians	148	(17)
`The Indians Are a Perseverant Race': Indian Law in Quebec and Atlantic Canada	165	(21)
`Can We Be Free under the Law of Queen Victoria on Top of Our Land?': Indians and the Law in British Columbia	186	(31)
`The Enforcement of the Extreme Penalty': Canadian Law and the Ojibwa-Cree Spirit World	217	(22)
`No Recognized Law': Canadian Law and the Prairie Indians	239	(44)
Conclusion	273	(10)
Notes	283	(128)
Illustration Credits	411	(2)
Index	413