The laws and the land : the settler colonial invasion of Kahnawà:ke in nineteenth-century Canada

Summary: "As the settler state of Canada expanded into Indigenous lands, 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."--

Record details

ISBN: 9780774867436 (hardcover)
Physical Description: print
336 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23cm
Publisher: Vancouver : UBC Press for the Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History, 2021.
Copyright: ©2021

Content descriptions

General Note:	Co-published by the Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references.
Formatted Contents Note:	Kahnawá:ke and Canada: Relationships of laws and lands -- "Whereas the Seigniory of Sault St. Louis is the property of the Iroquios Nation" : Dissidents, property, and power, 1790-1885 -- "Out of the beaten track" : Before the railroad, 1815-50 -- "In what legal anarchy will questions of property soon find themselves" : The era of Confederation, 1850-75 -- "The consequences of the promiscuous ownership" : Wood and the Indian Act, 1867-83 -- "Equal to an Ordnance map of the Old Country" : The Walbank survey, 1880-93 -- "It is necessary to follow the custom of the Reserve which is contrary to law" : Rupture and continuity, 1885-1900.