The laws and the land : the settler colonial invasion of Kahnawà:ke in nineteenth-century Canada /
As the settler state of Canada expanded into Indigenous lands, two traditions clashed in a bruising series of asymmetrical encounters over land use and ownership. One site of conflict was Kahnawà:ke. The Laws and the Land delineates the route from pre-contact and early contact ways of sharing the...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Vancouver :
UBC Press for the Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History,
[2021].
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| Series: | Law and society series (Vancouver, B.C.)
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| Summary: | As the settler state of Canada expanded into Indigenous lands, two traditions clashed in a bruising series of asymmetrical encounters over land use and ownership. One site of conflict was Kahnawà:ke. The Laws and the Land delineates the route from pre-contact and early contact ways of sharing the land to the establishment of Kahnawà:ke within the French seigneurial system, land use under Kahnawà:ke law, and the colonizing push to impose the Indian Act and private property, little short of an invasion spearheaded by bureaucrats. This book is connected to larger issues of membership in Indigenous nations, communal versus individual property rights, governance and inequality. |
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| Item Description: | Co-published by the Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History. |
| Physical Description: | xv, 312 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-300) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780774867436 0774867434 |