The Laws and the Land: The Settler Colonial Invasion of Kahnawà:ke in Nineteenth-Century Canada

SKU: 9780774867436

Author:
Daniel Ruck
Grade Levels:
Adult Education, College, University
Book Type:
Hardcover
Pages:
336
Publisher:
UBC Press
Copyright Date:
2021
Publication Date:
Sept 15/21

Price:
Sale price$55.92

Description

The Laws and the Land: The Settler Colonial Invasion of Kahnawà:ke in Nineteenth-Century Canada by Daniel Rück is a scholarly work on the settler state of Canada and the expanded into Indigenous lands, where two traditions clashed in a bruising series of asymmetrical encounters over land use and ownership. One site of conflict was Kahnawà:ke. The Laws and the Land delineates the route from pre-contact and early contact ways of sharing the land to the establishment of Kahnawà:ke within the French seigneurial system, land use under Kahnawà:ke law, and the colonizing push to impose the Indian Act and private property – little short of an invasion spearheaded by bureaucrats. This meticulously researched book is connected to larger issues of membership in Indigenous nations, communal versus individual property rights, governance, and inequality.

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