White Man's Law: Native People in Nineteenth-Century Canadian Jurisprudence

by Sidney L. Harring

Book Overview

In the nineteenth century many Canadians took pride in their country's policy of liberal treatment of Indians. In this thorough reinvestigation of Canadian legal history, Sidney L. Harring sets the record straight, showing how Canada has consistently denied Aboriginal peoples even the most basic civil rights. Drawing on scores of nineteenth-century legal cases, Harring reveals that colonial and early Canadian judges were largely ignorant of British...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0802005039
• ISBN13: 9780802005038
• Release Date: December 1998
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Length: 488 Pages
• Weight: 1.92 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.5" x 9.2"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher