Word: igloolik
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...community hall, which was redolent of blubber, untanned sealskin and oil. Without bothering to shed his mukluks (heavy sealskin boots), he pulled on the traditional black robe, white collar and tabs, and red sash of his office. Court was in session. For the tiny (pop. 540) Eskimo village of Igloolik, which has existed since 1500 B.C., it was the first time that a judge had ever paid a visit...
...style circuit rider, familiar to any fan of Hollywood westerns, largely disappeared in the U.S. around the turn of the century as urbanization advanced. Morrow is one of his few surviving descendants in North America. In Igloolik, he began by explaining the legal system in simple terms and by introducing the other members of the court, who flew along with him. There was a court clerk and a court recorder, a crown attorney who prosecuted the cases from a few notes made by the arresting Mountie, and a legal-aid counsel who prepared a defense after similarly sketchy study...
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