Liberalism, Surveillance, and Resistance: Indigenous Communities in Western Canada, 1877-1927 by Smith, Keith D.

Liberalism, Surveillance, and Resistance: Indigenous Communities in Western Canada, 1877-1927 (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781897425398)

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Liberalism, Surveillance, and Resistance: Indigenous Communities in Western Canada, 1877-1927 by Smith, Keith D.

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

$37.95
Liberalism, Surveillance, and Resistance: Indigenous Communities in Western Canada, 1877-1927 by Smith, Keith D.

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

$37.95
Format: Paperback
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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.

Author: Keith D. Smith
ISBN-10: 1897425392
ISBN-13: 9781897425398
Publisher: Athabasca University Press
Language: English
Published: 05/01/2009
Pages: 256
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.20lbs
Size: 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.80d
By Keith D. Smith
By Keith D. Smith
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Keith Smith is chair of the Department of First Nations Studies at Vancouver Island University, Nanaimo, British Columbia.

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