Thou shalt do no murder : Inuit, injustice, and the Canadian Arctic
This is a story of fur trade rivalry and duplicity, isolation and abandonment, greed and madness, and a struggle for the affections of an Inuit woman during a time of major social change in the High Arctic. Doubts over the validity of Canadian sovereignty and an official agenda to confirm that sovereignty added to the circumstances in which a guilty verdict against the leader of the Inuit accused was virtually assured. The show trial that took place in Pond Inlet in 1923 marked a collision of two cultures with vastly different conceptions of justice and conflict resolution. It marked an end to the Inuit traditional way of life and ushered in an era in which Inuit autonomy was supplanted by dependence on traders and police, and later missionaries. Kenn Harper draws on a combination of Inuit oral history, archival research, and his own knowledge acquired through 50 years in the Arctic to create a compelling story of justice and injustice in the Canadian far north.
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416 pages, 28 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some colour), maps, portraits ; 24 cm - Publisher Iqaluit, NU : Nunavut Arctic College Media, [2017]
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Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (page 387-400) and index. |
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Table of Contents
Thou Shalt Do No Murder : Inuit, Injustice, and the Canadian Arctic
Section | Section Description | Page Number |
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Introduction | p. 1 | |
Part 1 | Trading with the Inuit | |
1 | A Land of Extremes | p. 9 |
2 | "I Told Them That They Had Become Canadians" | p. 23 |
3 | Arctic Gold | p. 43 |
4 | "A Romantic, Colourful Character" | p. 65 |
5 | "A Hard, Very Hard Man" | p. 77 |
6 | Trading at Tulukkaan | p. 83 |
7 | Umik and Nuqallaq | p. 95 |
8 | "A Very Difficult, Unreasonable Fellow" | p. 109 |
9 | A Hard Bargain | p. 119 |
Part 2 | The Killing of Robert Janes | |
10 | Escape from the Arctic | p. 133 |
11 | At Cape Crauford | p. 145 |
12 | The Killing of Robert Janes | p. 159 |
Part 3 | "The Immoral Ethic of Conquest" | |
13 | The Return of Captain Munn | p. 171 |
14 | "Coming Up Jesusy" | p. 181 |
15 | "No Man's Land" | p. 191 |
16 | Under Two Flags | p. 203 |
17 | The Investigation | p. 217 |
18 | 1922: A Year of Change | p. 233 |
19 | "White Man's Justice" | p. 251 |
20 | The Trial | p. 275 |
21 | "The Immoral Ethic of Conquest" | p. 297 |
22 | "Thou Shalt Do No Murder" | p. 319 |
Epilogue | p. 333 | |
Appendix: Inuit Names and Other Inuktitut Words in Text | p. 343 | |
Acknowledgements | p. 351 | |
Chapter Notes | p. 355 | |
Bibliography | p. 387 | |
Index | p. 401 |