Liberalism, surveillances and resistance : : Indigenous communities in Western Canada, 1877-1927 / / by Keith D. Smith.

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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Superior document:The West Unbound : Social and Cultural Studies
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Place / Publishing House:Edmonton, Alberta : : AU Press,, 2009.
©2009
Year of Publication:2009
Language:English
Series:West unbound.
Physical Description:1 online resource (337 pages) :; illustrations; digital file(s).
Notes:Description based upon print version of record.
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Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgements
  • The Liberal Surveillance Complex
  • The Transformation of Indigenous Territory
  • Churches, Police Forces, and the Department of Indian Affairs
  • Disciplinary Surveillance and the Department of Indian Affairs
  • The British Columbia Interior and the Treaty 7 Region to 1877
  • The British Columbia Interior, 1877 to 1927
  • Exclusionary Liberalism in World War I and Beyond
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index