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Arctic crime and punishment

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  • Auteur: Harper, Kenn
    Résumé:

    Kenn Harper shares the tales of murderers, thieves, and fraudsters--as well as the wrongfully accused--in the early days of Northern colonization. In the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, settler and Inuit ideas of justice clashed, leading to some of the most unusual trials and punishments in history.

    Contents:
    • A hostage-taking in the Arctic
    • Five missing men
    • Henry Hudson's mutineers and the Inuit
    • Massacre at Knapp's Bay
    • Robert Hood : passion and murder in the North
    • Inuit evidence in a British court
    • Murder at Repulse Bay
    • How do you spell murder? The death of Charles Francis Hall
    • The execution of Private Henry
    • Christian Klengenberg : an Arctic enigma
    • Can a man be mistaken for a seal?
    • The killing of Radford and Street
    • Sinnisiak and Uluksuk
    • Getting away with murder
    • Blood on the snow : Robert Jane's last journey
    • The trial and punishment of Nuqallaq
    • Deputizing a murderer
    • The only Inuit hanged in Canada
    • The case of Ikalupiak : a spirited defence
    • Thou shalt do no murder
    • The Arctic's top cop commits suicide
    • "And the stars shall fall from heaven" : the Belcher Island murders
    • Angulaalik : a killing at Perry River
    • Isaac Shooyook, MLA, and the killing of Soosee
    • Death on an ice island.
    Genre: Canadian nonfiction, History, Indigenous materials
    Original Publisher: Iqaluit, Nunavut , Toronto, Ontario , Inhabit Media
    Language(s): English
    ISBN:

    9781772270068

    ,

    1772270067

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Abstract

Kenn Harper shares the tales of murderers, thieves, and fraudsters--as well as the wrongfully accused--in the early days of Northern colonization. In the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, settler and Inuit ideas of justice clashed, leading to some of the most unusual trials and punishments in history.

Genre
Canadian nonfiction
History
Indigenous materials
Publisher (Source)

Iqaluit, Nunavut

Toronto, Ontario

Inhabit Media

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