Criminal Law on the Aboriginal Plains : The First Nations and the First Criminal Court in the North-West Territories, 1870–1903

• Main Author: Gavigan, Shelley A. M.
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Osgoode Digital Commons 2008
• Subjects: Criminal justice; Administration of; Indigenous peoples > Legal status; laws; etc; Criminal law; Northwest Territories; Canada; Indigenous; Indian; and Aboriginal Law; First Nations
• Online Access: https://digitalcommons.osgoode.yorku.ca/faculty_books/347; https://www.library.yorku.ca/find/Record/2058281

This study undertakes an in-depth analysis of the relationship between the First Nations and the criminal law in the 'Saskatchewan' region of the North-West Territories, taking as its temporal point of departure the creation of the Territories in 1870. Through data derived from criminal court records from Hugh Richardson's tenure on the territorial bench (1876-1903), this study analyses the role of Canadian criminal law in a watershed period of social and legal transformation in and for the lives of the First Nations.