Aboriginal People and Colonizers of Western Canada to 1900 (Themes in Canadian History)

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The history of Canada’s Aboriginal peoples after European contact is a hotly debated area of study. In Aboriginal People and Colonizers of Western Canada to 1900, Sarah Carter looks at the cultural, political, and economic issues of this contested history, that specialize in the western interior, or what would later transform Canada’s prairie provinces.

This wide-ranging survey draws on the wealth of interdisciplinary scholarship of the last three decades. Topics include the affect of European diseases, changing interpretations of fur trade interaction, the Red River settlement as a cultural crossroad, missionaries, treaties, the disappearance of the buffalo, the myths about the Mounties, Canadian ‘Indian’ policy, and the policies of Aboriginal peoples towards Canada.

Carter makes a speciality of the multiplicity of perspectives that exist on past events. Referring to nearly all the current scholarship in the field, she presents opposing versions on each and every major topic, ceaselessly linking these debates to latest issues. The result is a sensitive remedy of history as an interpretive exercise, making this an invaluable text for students in addition to all those interested in Aboriginal/Non-Aboriginal relations.

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