Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents v
3. Illustrations vii
4. Preface ix
5. Abbreviations xiii
6. Introduction: Settler Colonialism and Its Legacies 3
7. British Law and Colonial Legal Regimes 19
8. The Foundations of Colonial Policing 43
9. Policing Aboriginal People on the Settler Frontier 62
10. Co-Optive Policing: Native Police, Trackers, and Scouts 84
11. Agents of Protection and Civilization 103
12. Aboriginal Peoples and Settlers in the Courts 121
13. Agents of the Church 152
14. Agency and Resistance: Aboriginal Responses to Colonial Authority 175
15. Colonizing and Decolonizing the Past 198
16. Conclusion: Spaces of Indigenous and Settler Law 220
17. Notes 225
18. Bibliography 263
19. Index of Statutes, Treaties, Charters, and Proclamations 298
20. Table of Reported Cases 301
21. Index 303
22. Law and Society 317