Thou Shalt Do No Murder: Inuit, Injustice, and the Canadian Arctic

by Kenn Harper

Book Overview

High Arctic, 1920: Three Inuit men delivered justice to an abusive Newfoundland trader

This is the 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

A show trial was held in Pond Inlet in 1923 that marked an end to the Inuit traditional way of life and ushered in an era in which Inuit...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1897568495
• ISBN13: 9781897568491
• Release Date: December 2017
• Publisher: Nunavut Arctic College
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 2.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 6.3" x 9.2"