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Author Clark, Bruce A., 1944-

Title Justice in paradise / Bruce Clark
Published Montreal [Qué.] : McGill-Queen's University Press, ©1999

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 382 pages)
Series McGill-Queen's native and northern series ; 20
McGill-Queen's native and northern series ; 20.
Contents CONTENTS -- PART ONE: EARLY ENCOUNTERS OF THE PATHOLOGICAL KIND -- 1 Indian Places and Formative Faces -- 2 My Introduction to Indian Law and Culture -- 3 Moving Deeper into Indian Culture -- 4 My Capture by Indian Law and Culture -- PART TWO: KICKING AGAINST THE PRICKS -- 5 The Bear Island Trial -- 6 Getting Fired and Going Back to School -- 7 Crises at Oka and the Lil'Wat Country -- 8 The Western Shoshone in Nevada -- PART THREE: IN THE WOMB OF THE DEVIL'S SPAWN -- 9 Our First Trip to Europe -- 10 Our Trip to Bulgaria
11 Petitions to the Queen and Meetings in Central AmericaPART FOUR: MEANWHILE BACK AT THE RANCH -- 12 The Bear Island Incident and My First Criminal Conviction -- 13 The Gustafsen Lake Story -- 14 Europe Again and More Petitions -- 15 The Mi'gmaq, the Supreme Court, and Other Matters -- PART FIVE: THE UNITED STATES: LAST EMPIRE, LAST HOPE -- 16 Mohegans of New York and Vermont -- 17 Law Society of Upper Canada v. Bruce Clark -- 18 Epitaph for a Dead Lawyer Walking -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- Illustrations -- Appendix -- Liberty Island Case
Plains CaseNotes -- Legal Authorities -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- W
Summary "Bruce Clark believes that the North American legal system has led to the genocide of indigenous people who embrace traditional religion and identity and that those who administer the system have abandoned the rule of law. To defend his beliefs, Clark gave up material wealth - a big home on a lake and an airplane - to finance his fight. He and his family lived on Indian reservations during his battle in North American courts and, in Europe, lived in squats while he argued his case before the World Court. No longer able to practice law, Clark has now been adopted by the Mohicans and together they are fighting for the Hudson River drainage basin and Liberty Island - site of the world's most potent symbol of freedom, the Statue of Liberty."--Jacket
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Clark, Bruce A., 1944-
SUBJECT Clark, Bruce A., 1944- fast
Subject Indigenous peoples -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- United States
Rule of law.
Lawyers -- Canada -- Biography
Indigenous peoples -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Canada
Indigenous peoples -- Legal status, laws, etc.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Lawyers & Judges.
LAW -- Indigenous Peoples.
LAW -- Constitutional.
Indigenous peoples -- Legal status, laws, etc.
Lawyers
Rule of law
Canada
United States
Genre/Form Biographies
Biographies.
Biographies.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780773568143
077356814X