British law and Arctic men : the celebrated 1917 murder trials of Sinnisiak and Uluksuk, first Inuit tried under white man's law

Written by Newfoundland -born author Robert Moyles, this book contains an account of the two murder trials of Inuit men Sinnisiak and Uluksuk, charged with murdering two Catholic Priests. After the verdict reached by the jury in the first trial held in Edmonton was deemed to be unfair due to externa...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Moyles, R. G.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Western Producer Prairie Books 1979
Subjects:
Sinnisiak
Uluksuk
Inuit > Canada > Government relations
Trials (Murder) > Canada
Arctic
inuit
Newfoundland
Newfoundland studies
Online Access:http://collections.mun.ca/cdm/ref/collection/cns2/id/37182
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Summary:Written by Newfoundland -born author Robert Moyles, this book contains an account of the two murder trials of Inuit men Sinnisiak and Uluksuk, charged with murdering two Catholic Priests. After the verdict reached by the jury in the first trial held in Edmonton was deemed to be unfair due to external influences, a second trial was held in Calgary. The book provides details of the crimes, the trials themselves, and also the changes to life in Canada's North tht resulted from the trials. Includes bibliographical references.

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