Fragile settlements : Aboriginal peoples, law, and resistance in south-west Australia and prairie Canada / Amanda Nettelbeck, Russell Smandych, Louis A. Knafla, and Robert Foster.
2016
KU354 .N48 2016 (Mapit)
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Fragile settlements : Aboriginal peoples, law, and resistance in south-west Australia and prairie Canada / Amanda Nettelbeck, Russell Smandych, Louis A. Knafla, and Robert Foster.
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Vancouver ; Toronto : UBC Press, [2016]
Description
xii, 315 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
Series
Law and society series (Vancouver, B.C.)
Formatted Contents Note
British law and colonial legal regimes
The foundations of colonial policing
Policing Aboriginal people on the settler frontier
Co-optive policing : native police, trackers, and scouts
Agents of protection and civilization
Aboriginal peoples and settlers in the courts
Agents of the church
Agency and resistance : Aboriginal responses to colonial authority
Colonizing and decolonizing the past.
The foundations of colonial policing
Policing Aboriginal people on the settler frontier
Co-optive policing : native police, trackers, and scouts
Agents of protection and civilization
Aboriginal peoples and settlers in the courts
Agents of the church
Agency and resistance : Aboriginal responses to colonial authority
Colonizing and decolonizing the past.
Summary
"Fragile Settlements compares the processes through which colonial authority was asserted over Indigenous people in southwest Australia and prairie Canada from the 1830s to the early twentieth century. At the start of this period, there was an explosion of settler migration across the British Empire. As a humanitarian response led to the unprecedented demand for land, Britain's Colonial Office moved to protect Indigenous peoples by making them subjects under British law. This book examines the tensions and contradictions that emerged as colonial actors and institutions--including government officials, police, courts, churches, and philanthropic organizations--interpreted and applied the principle of law in their interactions with Aboriginal peoples on the ground. As a comparative work, Fragile Settlements highlights important parallels and divergences in the histories of law and Indigenous-settler relations across the Anglo-colonial world. It questions the finality of settler colonization and contributes to ongoing debates around jurisdiction, sovereignty, and the prospect of genuine Indigenous-settler reconciliation in Canada and Australia."-- Provided by publisher.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Issued also in electronic format.
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KU354 .N48 2016
Language
English
ISBN
9780774830881 (bound)
0774830883 (bound)
0774830883 (bound)
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