Colonialism

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The Indian Got What Was Owing to Him

The Indian Got What Was Owing to Him

From: Cheated

Chapter Seven further details the surrender of reserve lands and subsequent sale by the Wilfred Laurier Liberals. ; 28 $2.80 Add
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The Insurrectionary Moment, 1837-38
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The Insurrectionary Moment, 1837-38

From: Colonialism and Capitalism: Canada's Origins 1500-1890

This chapter discusses social conflict in early nineteenth century Canada,coming to a head in the Upper Canada Rebellion and the Lower Canada Rebellion. 10 $1.00 Add
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The Last Eighteenth-Century "Indian War," the Opportunistic Origins of Capitalist Accumulation, and the Beginnings of Banking
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The Last Eighteenth-Century “Indian War,” the Opportunistic Origins of Capitalist Accumulation, and the Beginnings of Banking

The Other Meanings of 1812

From: Colonialism and Capitalism: Canada's Origins 1500-1890

This chapter discusses the effect of the War of 1812 on relations between the colonial rulers and Indigenous populations as well as economic opportunities presented and the creation of a colonial … 9 $0.90 Add
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The Métis Nation and Provisional Government in the North-West, 1869-71
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The Métis Nation and Provisional Government in the North-West, 1869-71

From: Colonialism and Capitalism: Canada's Origins 1500-1890

This chapter examines the Metis nation in communities such as the Red River and Saskatchewan River in the late nineteenth-century Canadian colony, the Canada Party, Louis Riel, and the … 12 $1.20 Add
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The Mythologies of Canada's "Good War"

The Mythologies of Canada’s "Good War"

From: Canada in the World

The Second World War – The Spectre of Jewish Bolshevism – None Is Too Many – Crimes and Contradictions – At War’s End – Death from Above, Death from Below 28 $2.80 Add
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The New Men of Power and Confederation's Capitalist Triumph
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The New Men of Power and Confederation’s Capitalist Triumph

From: Colonialism and Capitalism: Canada's Origins 1500-1890

This chapter addresses the weakening of the aristocratic and radical groups in Canada by the end of the 1840s and the triumph of the capitalist class and its ideology throughout the following decades. 11 $1.10 Add
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The New Minister Has Gone Too Far

The New Minister Has Gone Too Far

From: Cheated

Chapter Three, beginning in 1896, details the leadership of Clifford Sifton, then newly appointed Indian Affairs minister. ; 20 $2.00 Add
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The Rise of the Institutional State in the Mid-Nineteenth Century
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The Rise of the Institutional State in the Mid-Nineteenth Century

From: Colonialism and Capitalism: Canada's Origins 1500-1890

This chapter outlines the beginning of banking in nineteenth century Canada, along with institutions of control such as penitentiaries, police forces, houses of industry, asylums and schools. 13 $1.30 Add
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The Tragedy of the 1880s
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The Tragedy of the 1880s

From: Colonialism and Capitalism: Canada's Origins 1500-1890

This chapter discusses the state of Canada in the 1880s. Though still a British colony, the country had emerged as a powerful industrial capitalist state yet was deeply fragmented along economic, … 14 $1.40 Add
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Trials and Triumphs
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Trials and Triumphs

The Mask of Colonialism and the Grid of Capitalism (Railways and Guns) in the 1880s and 1890s

From: Colonialism and Capitalism: Canada's Origins 1500-1890

This chapter details the ongoing war of the Canadian state against the Metis populations throughout the 1880s, the trial of Louis Riel and the continued push westward of the Canadian Pacific Railway. 14 $1.40 Add
Unsettled

Unsettled

Lord Selkirk's Scottish Colonists and the Battle for Canada's West, 1813-1816

Unsettled tells the story of two hundred Highlanders who flee the Scottish Clearances in 1813 to establish a settlement on the Red River in what eventually became Winnipeg. They are … 358 View
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Vera Styres, Six Nations of the Grand River, Mohawk/Tuscarora

Vera Styres, Six Nations of the Grand River, Mohawk/Tuscarora

“I was a ‘scabby, dirty little Indian.’”

From: How We Go Home

Vera Styres is of the Six Nations of the Grand River and she is of Mohawk/Tuscarora descent. She is a retired social worker. She speaks of her childhood in residential schools, and of coming to … 20 $2.00 Add
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"With Its Branches You Now Lash Us"
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“With Its Branches You Now Lash Us”

The Accelerating Dispossession of Indigenous Peoples, 1780-1820

From: Colonialism and Capitalism: Canada's Origins 1500-1890

This chapter examines the increasing dispossession of the Indigenous populations between 1780 and the 1820s as settlement continued westward. 7 $0.70 Add
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Wizipan Little Elk, Rosebud Lakota

Wizipan Little Elk, Rosebud Lakota

“On the reservation, you have the beauty of the culture and our traditional knowledge contrasted with the reality of poverty.”

From: How We Go Home

Wizipan Little Elk, who is Rosebud Lakota, tells his story. He is the Executive Director of the Rosebud Economic Development Corporation, where he manages development projects to create jobs for … 22 $2.20 Add
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Women in Between
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Women in Between

From Fur Trade Frontier to Métis Nation

From: Colonialism and Capitalism: Canada's Origins 1500-1890

This chapter examines the impact of the fur trade and colonial expansion in Canada in the nineteenth century on First Nation and Metis women populations. 14 $1.40 Add