Truth and Conviction

Donald Marshall Jr. and the Mi'kmaw Quest for Justice

L. Jane McMillan (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

230 Seiten

2018
University of British Columbia Press (Verlag)
978-0-7748-3748-4 (ISBN)

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The name "Donald Marshall Jr." is synonymous with "wrongful conviction" and the fight for Indigenous rights in Canada. In Truth and Conviction, Jane McMillan – Marshall's former partner, an acclaimed anthropologist, and an original defendant in the Supreme Court's Marshall decision on Indigenous fishing rights – tells the story of how Marshall's fight against injustice permeated Canadian legal consciousness and revitalized Indigenous law.

Marshall was destined to assume the role of hereditary chief of the Mi'kmaw Nation when, in 1971, he was wrongly convicted of murder. He spent more than eleven years in jail before a royal commission exonerated him and exposed the entrenched racism underlying the terrible miscarriage of justice. Four years later, in 1993, he was charged with fishing eels without a licence. With the backing of Mi'kmaw chiefs, he took the case all the way to the Supreme Court to vindicate Indigenous treaty rights in the landmark Marshall decision.

Marshall was only fifty-five when he died in 2009. His legacy lives on as Mi'kmaq continue to assert their rights and build justice programs grounded in customary laws and practices, key steps in the path to self-determination and reconciliation.

L. Jane McMillan is the former Canada Research Chair for Indigenous Peoples and Sustainable Communities and chair of the Department of Anthropology at St. Francis Xavier University in Antigonish, Nova Scotia. A former eel fisher and one of the original defendants in the Supreme Court of Canada's Marshall decision (1999), she has worked with Mi'kmaw communities for over twenty years, conducting ethnographic research, developing policy, and advocating for Indigenous and treaty rights and for community-based justice.

Introduction

1 Meki o'pla'lusnaq A Great Wrong: The Wrongful Conviction

2 Melgwisgat Nightmare: Prison and Freedom

3 Koqwaja'taqn To Do the Right Thing: The Royal Commission

4 Ilsutekek To Make Right: Recommendations and Outcomes

5 L'nuwey Tplutaqan L'nu Law: Mi'kmaw Legal Principles

6 Munsi sapa'l'k Struggle to Survive: Mi'kmaw Justice Initiatives

7 Najiwsgeieg We Go Fishing: In Search of a Livelihood

8 Nijkitekek That Which Heals: Restorative Justice

9 I'l'oqaptmu'k Revisiting for Renewal: Mi'kmaw Legal Consciousness Today

Mi' walatl Thankful For

Notes; References and Further Reading; Index

Erscheinungsdatum	02.11.2018
Reihe/Serie	Law and Society
Zusatzinfo	12 b&w photos, 1 map
Verlagsort	Vancouver
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Recht / Steuern ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-7748-3748-9 / 0774837489
ISBN-13	978-0-7748-3748-4 / 9780774837484
Zustand	Neuware