TY  - BOOK
AU  - Keith Smith
AB  - 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.
ID  - OAPEN ID: 14445
KW  - indigenous people
KW  - First Nations
KW  - colonization
KW  - settlers
L1  - http://www.aupress.ca/index.php/books/120157
LA  - English
LK  - https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/51650
PB  - Athabasca University Press
PY  - 2009
SN  - 9781897425404
SN  - 9781897425398
TI  - Liberalism, Surveillance, and Resistance: Indigenous Communities in Western Canada, 1877-1927null
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