Colonialism
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From  A Great Deal of MischiefFrom: Cheated |
Chapter Ten describes the Canadian government’s efforts to acquire land from the Niitsitapi (Blackfoot) tribes in southern Albertaand the resistance they faced. | Bill Waiser; Jennie Hansen | 30 | 2023 | $3.00 Add |
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From  NEW! Aboriginal Title: A Legal AnalysisFrom: Our Land The Maritimes |
This chapter analyzes, from a legal perspective, the existence of Aboriginal title claims in the Maritimes, identifying the various procedural issues and restrictive requirements involved in … | A.J Semple; G.P. Gould | 61 | 2024 | $6.10 Add |
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From Ample Land LeftFrom: Cheated |
Chapter Five discusses the rapid growth of settlers in Western Canada and the subsequent displacement of Indigenous reserves. Conservative leader at the time Richard S. Lake is discussed. | Bill Waiser; Jennie Hansen | 25 | 2023 | $2.50 Add |
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From NEW! AssimilationFrom: Our Land The Maritimes |
This chapter focuses on the post-confederation assimilation policies imposed on Indigenous peoples in the Maritime provinces. Many of these policies resulted from the Indian Act of 1876 which … | A.J Semple; G.P. Gould | 47 | 2024 | $4.70 Add |
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From NEW! BibliographyFrom: Our Land The Maritimes |
This section lists the primary and secondary sources referenced throughout the book. | A.J Semple; G.P. Gould | 8 | 2024 | $0.80 Add |
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From  NEW! Chapter 1: Capitalist Crisis and Expansion, 1890-1914 |
This chapter recounts how the Depression of the 1890s was followed in the first decades of the twentieth century by enormous growth in mining, railroads and industry. | Bryan D. Palmer | 6 | 2025 | $0.60 Add |
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From  NEW! Chapter 1: Radical Indigenous Economic Exclusion |
This chapter explores how the process of “othering”, inherent in the policies of the Indian Act, has reinforced systemic inequality and exclusion of Indigenous peoples in Canada. | Carol Anne Hilton | 8 | 2025 | $0.80 Add |
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From NEW! Chapter 12: Indigenous Waged Work and First Nations Organizing, 1890-1930 |
This chapter shows how in the early decades of the twentieth century Indigenous Peoples, with diminished roles in traditional work, endured economic hardship and were excluded from steady wage jobs. | Bryan D. Palmer | 15 | 2025 | $1.50 Add |
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From NEW! Chapter 13: Residential Schooling and the Suppression of "the Indian," 1890-1930 |
This chapter explains how Residential schools assimilated Indigenous children by separating them from their families, subjecting them to coercion and abuse and erasing their culture. | Bryan D. Palmer | 17 | 2025 | $1.70 Add |
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From NEW! Chapter 2: Deconstructing Indian Act Economics |
This chapter explores how the Indian Act has historically restricted Indigenous economic development, defines the concept of “Indian Act economics”, and outlines its lasting negative … | Carol Anne Hilton | 22 | 2025 | $2.20 Add |
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From NEW! Chapter 28: "The Mountain Brings Forth a Mouse"The Indian Act and Colonialism's Continuities, 1944-60 |
This chapter details how at the end of WWII, Canada celebrated Indigenous war heroes like Tommy Prince and passed limited reforms through the 1951 Indian Act, yet at the same time denied the … | Bryan D. Palmer | 11 | 2025 | $1.10 Add |
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From NEW! Chapter 29: Prisons and Residential SchoolsColonial Coercions, 1940-70 |
This chapter recounts how in the postwar years, particularly after 1960, the rate of Indigenous imprisonment climbed rapidly as policing, courts and prisons replaced schools and reserves as the … | Bryan D. Palmer | 7 | 2025 | $0.70 Add |
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From NEW! Chapter 3: Indians, Ethics, and Economic Value |
This chapter highlights the Indian Act’s discriminatory policies by examining, and applying an ethical lens to, the language used throughout the Act. | Carol Anne Hilton | 14 | 2025 | $1.40 Add |
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From NEW! Chapter 30: Arctic AlterationsInuit Relocation in the 1950s |
This chapter discusses Cold War needs in the Arctic such as the DEW line and capitalist exploits that destroyed Inuit economies. | Bryan D. Palmer | 17 | 2025 | $1.70 Add |
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From NEW! Chapter 4: The Actual Cost of Doing Nothing |
This chapter introduces the concept of the “cost of doing nothing” and its implications for Indigenous economic development and social inclusion. | Carol Anne Hilton | 10 | 2025 | $1.00 Add |
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From NEW! Chapter 5: The Indigenous Economic Media Narrative |
This chapter exposes the false narratives used throughout Canadian history resulting from Indian Act policies that perpetuate harm and injustice to Indigenous communities. | Carol Anne Hilton | 8 | 2025 | $0.80 Add |
