Cover of Arctic justice

Arctic justice

on trial for murder, Pond Inlet, 1923

by Shelagh D. Grant

2002 342 pages eng

"Arctic Justice recounts a critical episode in how Canada came to control its High Arctic. In 1922 a mad trapper threatened to kill the sled dogs of a group of Baffin Island Inuit and, following the Inuit customary law that individuals who endanger the community must be killed, be was executed. Nuq…

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