Arctic Justice: On Trial for Murder, Pond Inlet 1923

364 Pages·2014·79.387 MB·English

by  Grant, S. D

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ARCTIC JUSTICE
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m gill-queen’s native and northern series
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bruce g. trigger, editor
1 When the Whalers Were Up North 10 Strangers Among Us
Inuit Memories from the Eastern David Woodman
Arctic
Dorothy Harley Eber 11 When the North Was Red
Aboriginal Education in Soviet
2 The Challenge of Arctic Shipping Siberia
Science, Environmental Assessment, Dennis A. Bartels and
and Human Values Alice L. Bartels
David L. VanderZwaag and Cynthia
Lamson, Editors 12 From Talking Chiefs to a Native
Corporate Elite
3 Lost Harvests
The Birth of Class and Nationalism
Prairie Indian Reserve Farmers and
among Canadian Inuit
Government Policy
Marybelle Mitchell
Sarah Carter
13 Cold Comfort
4 Native Liberty, Crown Sovereignty
My Love Affair with the Arctic
The Existing Aboriginal Right of
Graham W. Rowley
Self-Government in Canada
Bruce Clark
14 The True Spirit and Original Intent
of Treaty 7
5 Unravelling the Franklin Mystery
Treaty 7 Elders and Tribal Council
Inuit Testimony
with Walter Hildebrandt, Dorothy
David C. Woodman
First Rider, and Sarah Carter
6 Otter Skins, Boston Ships, and China
15 This Distant and Unsurveyed
Goods
Country
The Maritime Fur Trade of the
A Woman’s Winter at Baffin Island,
Northwest Coast, 1785–1841
1857–1858
James R. Gibson
W. Gillies Ross
7 From Wooden Ploughs to Welfare
The Story of the Western Reserves 16 Images of Justice
Helen Buckley Dorothy Harley Eber
8 In Business for Ourselves 17 Capturing Women
Northern Entrepreneurs The Manipulation of Cultural
Wanda A. Wuttunee Imagery in Canada’s Prairie West
Sarah A. Carter
9 For an Amerindian Autohistory
An Essay on the Foundations of 18 Social and Environmental Impacts of
a Social Ethic the James Bay Hydroelectric Project
Georges E. Sioui Edited by James F. Hornig
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19 Saqiyuq 26 The Flying Tiger
Stories from the Lives of Three Inuit Women Shamans and Storytellers of
Women the Amur
Nancy Wachowich in collaboration Kira Van Deusen
with Apphia Agalakti Awa, Rhoda
Kaukjak Katsak, and Sandra Pikujak 27 Alone in Silence
Katsak European Women in the Canadian
North before 1940
Barbara E. Kelcey
20 Justice in Paradise
Bruce Clark
28 The Arctic Voyages of Martin
Frobisher
21 Aboriginal Rights and
An Elizabethan Adventure
Self-Government
Robert McGhee
The Canadian and Mexican
Experience in North American 29 Northern Experience and the Myths
Perspective of Canadian Culture
Edited by Curtis Cook and Renée Hulan
Juan D. Lindau
30 The White Man’s Gonna Getcha
22 Harvest of Souls The Colonial Challenge to the Crees
The Jesuit Missions and Colonialism in Quebec
in North America, 1632–1650 Toby Morantz
Carole Blackburn
31 The Heavens Are Changing
Nineteenth-Century Protestant
23 Bounty and Benevolence
Missions and Tsimshian Christianity
A History of Saskatchewan Treaties
Susan Neylan
Arthur J. Ray, Jim Miller, and Frank
Tough
32 Arctic Migrants/Arctic Villagers
The Transformation of Inuit
24 The People of Denendeh
Settlement
Ethnohistory of the Indians of
in the Central Arctic
Canada’s Northwest Territories
David Damas
June Helm
33 Arctic Justice
25 The Marshall Decision and Native On Trial for Murder, Pond Inlet,
Rights 1923
Ken Coates Shelagh D. Grant
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Grant, Shelagh D. (Shelagh Dawn), 1938–
Arctic justice: on trial for murder, Pond Inlet, 1923/
Shelagh D. Grant
Includes bibliographical references and index.
isbn 0-7735-2337-5
1. Janes, Robert – Relations with Inuit. 2. Murder –
Nunavut – Baffin Island. 3. Trials (Murder) –
Nunavut – Pond Inlet. 4. Criminal justice, Adminis-
tration of – Nunavut – Pont Inlet – History. 5. Pond
Inlet (Nunavut) – Ethnic relations. I. Title.
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ANNA ATAGUTTIAQ
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Maps / x
Photographs and Illustrations / xi
Preface and Acknowledgments / xv
Prologue / 3
1 North Baffin to 1905 / 7
2 Sovereignty and Justice, 1874–1920 / 24
3 Gold Seekers and Fur Traders, 1912–1919 / 51
4 Sakirmiaviniq / 72
5 Police Investigations / 95
6 Awaiting Judgment / 130
7 Trial by Jury / 152
8 To Prison and Return / 187
9 Aftermath / 207
10 Arctic Justice Revisited / 239
Epilogue / 249
Appendices:
1 Notes on Research and Inuit Oral History / 259
2 Inuit Names for People and Places / 265
3 Glossary / 276
Notes / 279
Bibliography / 317
Index 329
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1 Arctic Canada, circa 1930 / xxi
2 Eastern Arctic, circa 1930 / xxii
3 Nineteenth Century Whaler’s Map, Baffin Island / 13
4 Hudson Bay and the Belcher Islands, 1920 / 46
5 North Baffin Region, circa 1920 / 52
6 Admiralty Inlet, 1920 / 75
7 Crime scene / 81
8 Nuqallaq’s route home, 1925 / 202
9 Eclipse Sound, circa 1930 / 208