Canadian Justice, Indigenous Injustice: The Gerald Stanley and Colten Boushie Case

by Kent Roach

Book Overview

In August 2016 Colten Boushie, a twenty-two-year-old Cree man from Red Pheasant First Nation, was fatally shot on a Saskatchewan farm by white farmer Gerald Stanley. In a trial that bitterly divided Canadians, Stanley was acquitted of both murder and manslaughter by a jury in Battleford with no visible Indigenous representation. In Canadian Justice, Indigenous Injustice Kent Roach critically reconstructs the Gerald Stanley/Colten Boushie case to examine...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0773556389
• ISBN13: 9780773556386
• Release Date: February 2019
• Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.9" x 9.1"