White Man's Law: Native People in Nineteenth-Century Canadian Jurisprudence (Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History)

Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1998. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. cloth, dust jacket, xv, 434 pages : illustrations, maps ; CONTENTS: Introduction, 1. 'The privilege of British justice' : colonialism and native rights, 2. 'A condescension lost on those people' : the Six Nations' Grand River lands, 1784-1860, 3. 'The common law is not part savage and part civilived' : Chief Justice John Beverley Robinson and native rights, 4. 'The migration of these simple people from equity to law' : native rights in Ontario courts, 5. 'Entirely independent in their villages' : criminal law and Indians in Upper Canada, 6. 'A more than usually degraded Indian type' : St Catherine's Milling and Indian title cases, 7. 'Canadian courts are open to enforce their contracts' : Canadian law and the legal culture of Ontario Indians, 8. 'The Indians are a perseverant race' : Indian law in Quebec and Atlantic Canada, 9. 'Can we be free under the law of Queen Victoria on top of our law?' : Indians and the law in British Columbia, 10. 'The enforcement of the extreme penalty' : Canadian law and the Ojibwa-Cree spirit world, 11. 'No recognized law' : Canadian law and the Prairie Indians, Conclusion.