Images of Justice
Images of Justice resonates with voices of the North and comes alive through interviews with many of those involved in the cases - defendants, judges, and prosecutors. Eber also provides valuable information on the little-known carvers who created these remarkable works of art. At a time when alternative legal systems for Native peoples are being debated, Images of Justice provides a lively, accessible account of the northern courts, their evolution, and their future in a changing northern society.
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Images of Justice
Images of Justice resonates with voices of the North and comes alive through interviews with many of those involved in the cases - defendants, judges, and prosecutors. Eber also provides valuable information on the little-known carvers who created these remarkable works of art. At a time when alternative legal systems for Native peoples are being debated, Images of Justice provides a lively, accessible account of the northern courts, their evolution, and their future in a changing northern society.
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Images of Justice

Images of Justice

by Dorothy Harley Eber
Images of Justice

Images of Justice

by Dorothy Harley Eber

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Images of Justice resonates with voices of the North and comes alive through interviews with many of those involved in the cases - defendants, judges, and prosecutors. Eber also provides valuable information on the little-known carvers who created these remarkable works of art. At a time when alternative legal systems for Native peoples are being debated, Images of Justice provides a lively, accessible account of the northern courts, their evolution, and their future in a changing northern society.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780773577725
Publisher: McGill-Queens University Press
Publication date: 09/26/1997
Series: McGill-Queen's Indigenous and Northern Studies , #16
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 240
File size: 3 MB

About the Author

Dorothy Harley Eber is the author of Pitseolak: Pictures Out of My Life, When the Whalers Were Up North: Inuit Memories from the Eastern Arctic and, with Peter Pitseolak, People from Our Side: A Life Story With Photographs and Oral Biography. She lives in

Table of Contents

Acknowledgmentsix
Mapxi
Prologue3
The NWT Supreme Court and Its History9
Regina v. Kaotak, 195641
Regina v. Angulalik, 195747
Regina v. Kikkik, 195857
Regina v. Pitseolak, 195977
Regina v. Kogogolak, 195983
Regina v. Ayalik, 196093
Re Noah's Estate, 1961101
Re Katie's Adoption, 1961109
Regina v. Sikyea, 1962117
Regina v. Mingeriak, 1963125
Regina v. Amak, Avinga, and Nangmalik, 1963131
Regina v. Shooyook and Aiyoot, 1966137
Regina v. Jeffrey, 1967153
Regina v. Tootalik, 1969-70159
Current Times
Interpreting the Law: Regina v. Niviaqsi Laisa, 1991167
In Nunavut: Okalik for the Defence185
Epilogue: The Yellowknife Courthouse Collection of Inuit Sculpture191
Notes203
Sources213
Index217
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