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The Laws and the Land: The Settler Colonial Invasion of Kahnawa:ke in Nineteenth-Century Canada by Daniel Ruck

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As the settler state of Canada expanded into Indigenous lands, settlers dispossessed Indigenous people and undermined their sovereignty as nations. One site of invasion was Kahnawa:ke, a Kanien'keha:ka community and part of the Rotinonhsionni confederacy. The Laws and the Land delineates the establishment of a settler colonial relationship from early contact ways of sharing land; land practices under Kahnawa:ke law; the establishment of modern Kahnawa:ke in the context of French imperial claims; intensifying colonial invasions under British rule; and ultimately the Canadian invasion in the guise of the Indian Act, private property, and coercive pressure to assimilate. What Daniel Ruck describes is an invasion spearheaded by bureaucrats, Indian agents, politicians, surveyors, and entrepreneurs. This original, meticulously researched book is deeply connected to larger issues of human relations with environments, communal and individual ways of relating to land, legal pluralism, historical racism and inequality, and Indigenous resurgence.



About the Author

Daniel Ruck is an assistant professor in the Department of History and the Institute of Indigenous Research and Studies at the University of Ottawa. He is a settler scholar living and working on the unceded territory of the Algonquin nation along the Kitchissippi (Ottawa River).



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As someone who has been teaching Indigenous studies courses for almost a decade... I would recommend this book to anyone interested in the Indigenous history of Canada... I have no doubt that it will become a regularly cited work, but it is also written in such a away that members of the general public should find it not only accessible, but also interesting. -- Daniel Sims, University of Northern British Columbia * Canadian Journal of History *
Daniel Ruck presents a richly detailed and sophisticated history of land use rights and ownership on the Kahnawa:ke reserve over the course of a century. He is thoroughly impressive in his articulation of the many ways in which Indigenous and European laws are both at odds and, at times, complimentary. -- Bill Parenteau, University of New Brunswick * NiCHE *


Awards
Winner of Indigenous History Book Prize, Canadian Historical Association 2022 (Canada) and Best Book Prize, Canadian Studies Network 2022 (Canada).



Book Information
ISBN 9780774867436
Author Daniel Ruck
Format Hardback
Page Count 336
Imprint University of British Columbia Press
Publisher University of British Columbia Press
Weight(grams) 660g

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