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Images of justice : a legal history of the Northwest Territories as traced through the Yellowknife courthouse collection of Inuit sculpture / Dorothy Harley Eber.
- Title
- Images of justice : a legal history of the Northwest Territories as traced through the Yellowknife courthouse collection of Inuit sculpture / Dorothy Harley Eber.
- Author
- Eber, Dorothy.
- Publication
- Montreal ; Buffalo : McGill-Queen's University Press, c1997.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Use in library | KEN5929.5.C75 .E24x 1997 | Off-site |
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- Description
- x, 223 p. : ill., map; 24 cm.
- Summary
- "The Yellowknife courthouse displays a collection of fourteen Inuit carvings representing landmark cases in the legal history of the Northwest Territories. The cases, which came to trial before the NWT Supreme Court between 1955 and 1970, and the carvings that represent them illuminate a pivotal period of social change when the Inuit camp system was eroding and age-old practices and traditional mores were being called into question. Dorothy Harley Eber tells the stories behind the carvings and provides fascinating insight into the unusual situations and special problems that developed as the Inuit came in contact with Canada's justice system."--Jacket.
- Series Statement
- McGill-Queen's native and northern series
- Uniform Title
- McGill-Queen's native and northern series 16.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Note
- Series statement from back flap of book jacket; series numbering from CIP.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 214-216) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Acknowledgments -- Map -- Prologue -- The NWT Supreme Court and its history -- Regina v. Kaotak, 1956 -- Regina v. Angulalik, 1957 -- Regina v. Kikkik, 1958 -- Regina v. Pitseolak, 1959 -- Regina v. Kogogolak, 1959 -- Regina v. Ayalik, 1960 -- Re Noah's Estate, 1961 -- Regina v. Sikyea, 1962 -- Regina v. Mingeriak, 1963 -- Regina v. Amak, Avinga, and Nangmalik, 1963 -- Regina v. Shooyook and Aiyoot, 1966 -- Regina v. Jeffrey, 1967 -- Regina v. Tootalik, 1969-70 -- Current times interpreting the law: Regina v. Niviaqsi Laisa, 1991 -- In Nunavut: Okalik for the defence -- Epilogue: the Yellowknife courthouse collection of Inuit sculpture -- Notes -- Sources -- Index.
- ISBN
- 0773516751
- LCCN
- cn^97900677^
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library