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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Smith, Keith D., Author.

Series:

The West Unbound: Social and Cultural Studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Liberalism--Alberta--History.

Liberalism -- Alberta -- History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (337 p.)

Place of Publication:

Edmonton, Alberta : Athabasca University Press, [2009]

Language Note:

In English.

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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 26. Apr 2024)

ISBN:

9786612819667

9781282819665

1282819666

9781897425404

1897425406

OCLC:

607907170