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Klappentext Scholars often accept without question that the Indian Act (1876) criminalized First Nations. Drawing on court files, police and penitentiary records, and newspaper accounts from the Saskatchewan region of the North-West Territories between 1870 and 1905, Shelley Gavigan argues that the notion of criminalization captures neither the complexities of Aboriginal participation in the criminal courts nor the significance of the Indian Act as a form of law. This illuminating book paints a vivid portrait of Aboriginal defendants, witnesses, and informants whose encounters with the criminal law and the Indian Act included both the mediation and the enforcement of relations of inequality. Zusammenfassung Tells the complex story of the relationship between Plains Indians and Canadian criminal law as it took root in their land. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: One Warrior¿s Legal History1 Legally Framing the Plains and the First Nations2 ¿Of Course No One Saw Them¿: Aboriginal Accused in the Criminal Court3 ¿Prisoner Never Gave Me Anything for What He Done¿: Aboriginal Voices in the Criminal Court4 ¿Make a Better Indian of Him¿: Indian Policy and the Criminal Court5 Six Women, Six StoriesConclusionAfterword: A Methodological Note on Sources and DataNotesBibliographyIndex
