The Laws and the Land by Daniel Ruck HARDBACK 9780774867436

The Laws and the Land\nby Daniel Ruck\nHardback\nEnglish\n\nBrand new copy from BookCurl \u2013 the UK independent online bookseller.\n\n------------------------------\nBook details\n------------------------------\nAuthor: Daniel Ruck\nTitle: The Laws and the Land\nFormat: Hardback\nLanguage: English\nTopic: Indigenous peoples\nPublisher: University of British Columbia Press\nISBN-13: 9780774867436\nISBN-10: 0774867434\nRRP: \u00A335.00\n\n------------------------------\nDescription\n------------------------------\n\nAs the settler state of Canada expanded into Indigenous lands, settlers dispossessed Indigenous people and undermined their sovereignty as nations. One site of invasion was Kahnaw\u00E0:ke, a Kanien'keh\u00E1:ka community and part of the Rotinonhsi\u00F3nni confederacy. The Laws and the Land delineates the establishment of a settler colonial relationship from early contact ways of sharing land; land practices under Kahnaw\u00E0:ke law; the establishment of modern Kahnaw\.