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Who Owns the Prairies?: A History of the Land, 1871 - 2021
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SSHRC IG awarded 2022: "Who owns the prairies?" will uncover and analyze who has owned the farmlands of the prairies of Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and Alberta from the 1870s treaties to today. It will dissect the objectives, attitudes, politics, and logics of the laws and policies that shaped land ownership and consequently the society, culture, and economy of the prairies. It will provide historical context by exploring how laws, policies, and attitudes toward race and gender and colonialism have forged patterns of land ownership over the last 150 years and how vast areas have been appropriated to private interests; It will uncover how certain peoples and sectors were nurtured and they prospered, while others were discouraged and hindered. The project will also demonstrate that there is a long history of alternative visions and experiments in land holding including communal interests. It will also outline proposals for reform to help map out some of the ways ahead to achieve more equitable access to and use of land. The project examines settler colonialism through Indigenous Studies and draws upon methodologies of archival reseaearch, databases and digitized records, and on-line contemporary sources and studies.
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- 09/28/2021
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- ©️Carter, Sarah A. All rights reserved other than by permission. This document embargoed to those without UAlberta CCID until 2027.