{"product_id":"9781459744080-the-court-of-better-fiction","title":"The Court of Better Fiction","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThree Trials, Two Executions, and Arctic Sovereignty\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eThe Court of Better Fiction\u003c\/i\u003e, forensic science reveals that to establish sovereignty over the Arctic people, Canada hanged the only Inuit ever executed. The men were innocent, but the nation’s guilt lives on.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eIn its rush to establish dominion over the North, Canada executed two innocent Inuit men.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 1921, the RCMP arrested two Copper Inuit men under suspicion that the two had murdered their uncle. Both men confessed to the crime through a police interpreter, though the “confession” was highly questionable.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Canadian government used the case to plant their flag in the north, but the trial quickly became a master class in judicial error. Correspondence among the key players reveals that the trial’s outcome was decided months before the court was even convened. Authorities were so certain of a conviction that the executioner and gallows were sent north before the trial began.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe precedent established Canada’s legal relationship with the Inuit, who would spend the next seventy-seven years fighting to regain their autonomy and Indigenous rule of law. Drawing on documents long buried in restricted files in the National Archives, \u003ci\u003eThe Court of Better Fiction\u003c\/i\u003e reveals the disgraceful incident and its fallout in unprecedented detail.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55419736359286,"sku":"9781459744080","price":18.05,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/stand_33646411.jpg?v=1748529168","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781459744080-the-court-of-better-fiction","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}