Criminal Justice

"A teen's suspicious death, a shocking police cover-up and a mother's search for truth: this landmark investigation into justice and Canada's Indigenous people is re-issued and updated here for the first time in over a decade.

"The Unexpected Cop: Indian Ernie on a Life of Leadership by Ernie Louttit is the author’s story of his life as a police officer and later as an author and leader. Acknowledging what has been lost and what can still be gained or recovered in traditional learning, Louttit’s adds that young people will be champions of this new learning – oral traditions of storytelling in the midst of new media but what is taken from it will challenge how well we are grounded in what we value and believe.

"Indigenous women continue to be overrepresented in Canadian prisons; research demonstrates how their overincarceration and often extensive experiences of victimization are interconnected with and through ongoing processes of colonization. Implicating the System: Judicial Discourses in the Sentencing of Indigenous Women explores how judges navigate these issues in sentencing by examining related discourses in selected judgments from a review of 175 decisions.

"In August 2016 Colten Boushie, a twenty-two-year-old Cree man from Red Pheasant First Nation, was fatally shot on a Saskatchewan farm by white farmer Gerald Stanley. In a trial that bitterly divided Canadians, Stanley was acquitted of both murder and manslaughter by a jury in Battleford with no visible Indigenous representation.

Summary report of a 3 day meeting held in Edmonton in February 1975 called the National Conference on Native Peoples and the Criminal Justice System.

"Written in 1979 for the Research Branch of the federal Ministry of Indian and Northern Affairs, this publicaiton lists justice oriented programmes across Canada, federally, provincially and territorially, that are designed for or available to native people. Lists purpose of the program, authorization for the the program, administration of the program, target population, duration, and resources in terms of funds and personnel. Lists contact information." -- Provided by publisher

"Collection of 11 essays that examine the implications and ramifications of the Mabo decision on Australia and its law. Discusses such topics as the constitutional background to the decision, public law aspects, the admissibility of traditional evidence, the implications for Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders, and native title and pastoral leases. Contributors include Frank Brennan, Henry Reynolds, Bryan Keon-Cohen, Darrell Lumb, Margaret Stephenson and K E Mulqueeny. Includes notes on contributors, references and a foreword by Sir Harry Gibbs, a former Chief Justice of the High Court.

"Judgement at Stoney Creek has been released in a new edition of an aboriginal studies classic: an engrossing look at the investigation into the hit-and-run death of Coreen Thomas, a young Native woman in her ninth month of pregnancy, at the wheels of a car driven by a young white man in central BC.

"In traditional Aboriginal societies, women were the equal of men and were entitled to be treated with respect. In fact, in Aboriginal matriarchal societies, women were the ultimate holders of political and social power, with responsibilities expressed in teachings handed down from mother to daughter. One of the saddest influences of the years of contact between Aboriginal and European people in North America has been the denigration of the status of women in Aboriginal societies, as a result of or in conjunction with assaults that occurred against aboriginal cultures generally.

"Although there was no Canadian law enforcement in the Eastern High Arctic when a crazed white fur trader was killed by an Inuk, authorities put Nuqallaq and two other Baffin Island Inuit on trial. The Canadian government saw Robert Janes's death as murder; the Inuit saw it as removing a threat from their society according to custom. Nuqallaq was sentenced to ten years hard labour in Stony Mountain Penitentiary where he contracted tuberculosis. He died shortly after being returned to Pond Inlet.