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Contesting the Colonial Order on the Canadian Prairies: Government Policy, Indigenous Resistance and the Administration of Treaty 6, 1870-1890
DownloadSpring 2016
This dissertation highlights the responses of Indigenous leaders and communities to the emergence of the colonial order on the Canadian prairies between 1870 and 1890. The complexities of their actions reveal significant points of weakness in the colonial order. Colonial governance strategies for...
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Counter-Mapping the Lands and Material Heritage of Nineteenth-Century Métis in amiskwaciy-wâskahikan (Edmonton, Alberta) Using Historical Documents
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When telling the tale of the city of Edmonton in Alberta, Canada (amiskwaciy-wâskahikan), history writers, textbook authors, and local interest enthusiasts alike locate her roots in the nineteenth century, training their attention above all firstly upon the fur trading posts which became Fort...
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Dam Bennett: The Impacts of the W.A.C. Bennett Dam and Williston Lake Reservoir on the Tsek'ehne of Northern British Columbia
DownloadSpring 2018
In 1968 the province of British Columbia completed the W.A.C. Bennett Dam and created the Williston Lake reservoir. Far from being an empty wilderness eagerly waiting for development, the site of this new body of water was the centre of the Tsekâehne homeland. Unsurprisingly, the W.A.C. Bennett...
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From One Colonization Road to Another? Everyday Memories of the Social and Economic Conditions in Minnewakin, Stone Lake, and Lundar, Manitoba, 1940-1960
DownloadFall 2017
Proceeding World War II, Canada moved into a period of economic prosperity that brought considerable social change to the Interlake region of Manitoba, and in turn, Metis and Halfbreed ways of life in the area. The research that would inform these changes began with Manitoba’s postwar...
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2019-07-31
SSHRC CG awarded 2019: Tuberculosis (TB) is an endemic disease within many Indigenous communities in the Treaty 8 territory. It has roots both within the historical contexts of the affected communities, and the historic failure of clinical medicine to achieve culturally relevant health outcomes....
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Fall 2017
Over the last few years, the importance of place in the creation, and continuation of, Metis communities has comprised one of my primary research interests. Tied up in this idea of place are the key questions: why did Metis individuals and families decide to stay in the borderlands in the face of...