Keith D. Smith

Liberalism, Surveillance, and Resistance (eBook, ePUB)

Indigenous communities in Western Canada, 1877-1927

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Athabasca University Press
• Seitenzahl: 337
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Mai 2009
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781897425404
• Artikelnr.: 37970382

Autorenporträt

Keith D. Smith is Chair of the Department of First Nations Studies and teaches in the Department of History at Vancouver Island University in Nanaimo, British Columbia.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1: The Liberal Surveillance Complex
Chapter 2: The Transformation of IndigenousTerritory
Chapter 3: Churches, Police Forces, and theDepartment of Indian Affairs
Chapter 4: Disciplinary Surveillance and theDepartment of Indian Affairs
Chapter 5: The British Columbia Interior and theTreaty 7 Region to 1877
Chapter 6: The British Columbia Interior, 1877 to1927
Chapter 7: The Treaty 7 Region After 1877
Chapter 8: Exclusionary Liberalism in World War Iand Beyond
Notes
Bibliography
Index