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Spirits of the Rockies: Reasserting an Indigenous Presence in Banff National Park

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The Banff–Bow Valley in western Alberta is the center of non secular and economic life for the Nakoda peoples. Whilst they were displaced from the region by the reserve system and the creation of Canada’s first national park, within the twentieth century the Nakoda reasserted their presence within the valley through involvement in regional tourism economies and the Banff Indian Days sporting festivals.

Drawing on extensive oral testimony from the Nakoda, supplemented by detailed analysis of archival and visual records, Spirits of the Rockies is a sophisticated account of the location that these Indigenous communities encountered after they were denied get entry to to the Banff National Park. Courtney W. Mason examines the facility relations and racial discourses that dominated the eastern slopes of the Canadian Rocky Mountains and shows how the Nakoda strategically used the Banff Indian Days festivals to realize get entry to to sacred lands and reply to colonial policies designed to repress their cultures.

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