Liberalism, Surveillance, and Resistance

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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. Chapter 1: The Liberal Surveillance ComplexChapter 2: The Transformation of IndigenousTerritoryChapter 3: Churches, Police Forces, and theDepartment of Indian AffairsChapter 4: Disciplinary Surveillance and theDepartment of Indian AffairsChapter 5: The British Columbia Interior and theTreaty 7 Region to 1877Chapter 6: The British Columbia Interior, 1877 to1927Chapter 7: The Treaty 7 Region After 1877Chapter 8: Exclusionary Liberalism in World War Iand BeyondNotesBibliographyIndex