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Indigenous Surveillance, Scoops, and Schools: Coercive Continuities, 1960–75
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In this chapter, Palmer explains the government policy and practice of cultural assimilation, including the forced removal of Indigenous children from their families in the Sixties Scoop. Colonial surveillance monitored and controlled Indigenous communities throughout the 1960s. He details how state agencies including the RCMP monitored political protests while sometimes fabricating trial evidence to justify arrests of Indigenous leaders and activists.
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Bryan D. Palmer
Bryan D. Palmer is Professor Emeritus and former Canada Research Chair, Canadian Studies, Trent University, Peterborough, Canada. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, former editor of Labour/Le Travail, and has published extensively on the history of labour and the revolutionary left. Among his many books are Canada’s 1960s and the co-authored Toronto's Poor: A Rebellious History. In the fall of 2024, Colonialism and Capitalism: Canada's Origins 1500–1890 was published, followed by Capitalism and Colonialism: The Making of Modern Canada 1890—1960 in the spring of 2025. He lives in Warkworth, Ontario.
