Arctic Justice: On Trial for Murder, Pond Inlet, 1923Although there was no Canadian law enforcement in the Eastern High Arctic when a crazed white fur trader was killed by an Inuk, authorities put Nuqallaq and two other Baffin Island Inuit on trial. The Canadian government saw Robert Janes's death as murder; the Inuit saw it as removing a threat from their society according to custom. Nuqallaq was sentenced to ten years hard labour in Stony Mountain Penitentiary where he contracted tuberculosis. He died shortly after being returned to Pond Inlet.Shelagh Grant's award-winning Arctic Justice is a masterly reconstruction of these tragic events at the intersection of Inuit and Canadian justice. Combining original Inuit oral testimony with archival history, Grant sheds light on the conflicting values and perceptions of two disparate cultures. She shows how the Canadian government's decision was determined by fear and political concerns for establishing sovereignty over the Arctic.Arctic Justice is also a social history of North Baffin Island in the twentieth century with vivid portraits of Janes, Captain J.E. Bernier of the CGS Arctic, investigating RCMP officer A. H. Joy, and the remarkable Nuqallaq, his wife Ataguttiaq, and the Inuit of North Baffin Island. |
Contents
Prologue | 3 |
North Baffin Prior to 1905 | 7 |
Sovereignty and Justice 18741920 | 24 |
GoldSeekers and Fur Traders 19121919 | 51 |
Sakirmiaviniq | 72 |
Police Investigations | 95 |
Awaiting Judgment | 130 |
Trial by Jury | 152 |
Arctic Justice Revisited | 239 |
Epilogue | 249 |
Notes on Research and Inuit Oral History | 259 |
Inuit Names for People and Places | 265 |
Glossary | 276 |
Notes | 279 |
Bibliography | 317 |
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Common terms and phrases
Aatitaaq Admiralty Inlet Arctic Bay Arctic Islands Arnakallak arrived Ataguttiaq Baffin Island Belcher Islands Button Point Bylot Island Canada Cape Crauford Captain Bernier CGS Arctic Constable court Craig Harbour crime report Cumberland Sound death detachment diary dogs Dundas Harbour Eastern Arctic Eclipse Sound elders Ellesmere Eskimo fear foxes Freuchen furs going Government Expedition Greenland Hudson's Bay Company hunters Ibid Igarjuaq igloo Igloolik Ijjangiaq inquest Inspector Wilcox interview Inuit Inuk Inuktitut Joy's July Justice later living Mary-Rousselière McInnes Collection Miqutui Mounted Police Munn Munn's natives Noah Piugaattuk Noo-kud-lah Nookudlah North Baffin Northwest Territories Nunavut Nuqallaq O.S. Finnie officer Ottawa Pangnirtung patrol Penitentiary Pond Inlet preliminary hearings prisoner qallunaat RCMP RCMP Commissioner Robert Janes Sannirut ship shoot shot skins sovereignty Staff-Sergeant Joy Starnes statement Stony Mountain Penitentiary story summer Takijualuk told trading post Tremblay Ululijarnaat Umik Uuttukuttuk whaling wife Wilfred Caron winter witnesses
References to this book
Strange Things Done: Murder in Yukon History Kenneth Coates,William Robert Morrison Limited preview - 2004 |