"Arctic Justice recounts a critical episode in how Canada came to control its High Arctic. In 1922 a mad trapper threatened to kill the sled dogs of a group of Baffin Island Inuit and, following the Inuit customary law that individuals who endanger the community must be killed, …
"Arctic Justice recounts a critical episode in how Canada came to control its High Arctic. In 1922 a mad trapper threatened to kill the sled dogs of a group of Baffin Island Inuit and, following the Inuit customary law that individuals who endanger the community must be killed, …
This research documents Dogrib traditional justice as it has been practiced in Lac La Martre, Northwest Territories, over the last century. Relying on information received from the elders, it describes a sophisticated body of Dogrib law, the understanding of which has important …
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