Liberalism, Surveillance, and Resistance : : Indigenous communities in Western Canada, 1877-1927 / / 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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Place / Publishing House: | Edmonton, Alberta : : Athabasca University Press, , [2009] ©2009 |
Year of Publication: | 2009 |
Language: | English |
Series: | The West Unbound: Social and Cultural Studies
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (337 p.) |
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Summary: | 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 1927, government officials, police officers, church representatives, ordinary settlers, and many others operated to exclude and reform Indigenous people. Presenting Anglo-Canadian liberal capitalist values and structures and interests as normal, natural, and beyond reproach devalued virtually every aspect of Indigenous cultures. This book explores the means used to facilitate and justify colonization, their effects on Indigenous economic, political, social, and spiritual lives, and how they were resisted. |
ISBN: | 9786612819667 1282819666 1897425406 |
Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
Statement of Responsibility: | Keith D. Smith. |