Fragile Settlements: Aboriginal Peoples, Law and Resistance in South-West Australia and Prairie Canada

Amanda Nettelbeck, Russell Smandych, Louis Knafla and Robert Foster’s, Fragile Settlements: Aboriginal Peoples, Law and Resistance in South-West Australia and Prairie Canada (UBC Press): compares the processes by which colonial authority was asserted over Indigenous people from the 1830s to the early twentieth century. It highlights the parallels and divergences between these connected British frontiers by examining how colonial actors and institutions interpreted and applied the principle of law in their interaction with Indigenous peoples on the ground.