Liberalism, Surveillance, and Resistance: Indigenous Communities in Western Canada, 1877-1927

Canada is regularly presented as a country where liberalism has ensured freedom and equality for all. Yet with the expansion of settlers into the First Nations territories that became southern Alberta and BC, liberalism proved to be an exclusionary rather than inclusionary force. Between 1877 and 19...

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Main Author: Keith Smith (auth)
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Published: Athabasca University Press 2009
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