Title Fragile settlements : Aboriginal peoples, law, and resistance in south-west Australia and prairie Canada / Amanda Nettelbeck, Russell Smandych, Louis A. Knafla, and Robert Foster

Published Vancouver ; Toronto : UBC Press, 2016

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Description 1 online resource Series Law and Society series Law and society series (Vancouver, B.C.) Contents British law and colonial legal regimes -- The foundations of colonial policing -- Policing Aboriginal people on the settler frontier -- Co-optive policing : native police, trackers, and scouts -- Agents of protection and civilization -- Aboriginal peoples and settlers in the courts -- Agents of the church -- Agency and resistance : Aboriginal responses to colonial authority -- Colonizing and decolonizing the past Summary "Fragile Settlements compares the processes through which colonial authority was asserted over Indigenous people in southwest Australia and prairie Canada from the 1830s to the early twentieth century. At the start of this period, there was an explosion of settler migration across the British Empire. As a humanitarian response led to the unprecedented demand for land, Britain's Colonial Office moved to protect Indigenous peoples by making them subjects under British law. This book examines the tensions and contradictions that emerged as colonial actors and institutions--including government officials, police, courts, churches, and philanthropic organizations--interpreted and applied the principle of law in their interactions with Aboriginal peoples on the ground. As a comparative work, Fragile Settlements highlights important parallels and divergences in the histories of law and Indigenous-settler relations across the Anglo-colonial world. It questions the finality of settler colonization and contributes to ongoing debates around jurisdiction, sovereignty, and the prospect of genuine Indigenous-settler reconciliation in Canada and Australia."-- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Subject Aboriginal Australians -- Colonization -- Australia -- Western Australia -- History -- 19th century Aboriginal Australians -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Australia -- Western Australia -- History -- 19th century Aboriginal Australians -- Colonization -- Australia -- South Australia -- History -- 19th century Aboriginal Australians -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Australia -- South Australia -- History -- 19th century Indians of North America -- Colonization -- Prairie Provinces -- History -- 19th century Indians of North America -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Prairie Provinces -- History -- 19th century Indians -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Prairie Provinces -- History -- 19th century Indians -- Colonization -- Prairie Provinces -- History -- 19th century HISTORY -- Australia & New Zealand. Indians -- Legal status, laws, etc. Aboriginal Australians -- Legal status, laws, etc. British colonies Indians of North America -- Colonization Indians of North America -- Legal status, laws, etc. Kolonialmacht Aborigines Indianer Rechtsstellung SUBJECT Great Britain -- Colonies -- Australia -- History -- 19th century Great Britain -- Colonies -- Canada -- History -- 19th century Great Britain -- Colonies -- History -- 19th century Subject Australia Canada Prairie Provinces South Australia Western Australia Großbritannien Australien -- Südwest Kanada Genre/Form History Form Electronic book Author Knafla, Louis A., 1935- author. Smandych, Russell, 1956- author Foster, Robert, 1958- author. ISBN 9780774830904 0774830905 9780774830911 0774830913 9780774830928 0774830921 9780774830881 0774830883 9780774830898 0774830891

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