Alberta: We Demand ‘Unconditional Surrender’: Making And Unmaking The Blackfoot Hospital, ...

Alberta: We Demand ‘Unconditional Surrender’: Making And Unmaking The Blackfoot Hospital, 1890s To 1950s Maureen Lux, 2011   The Siksika (Blackfoot) in southern Alberta, along with other western Canadian Aboriginals in the post-Treaty (1870s) period, bore the brunt of the destruction of the bison economy and the nascent state's colonial policies intended to marginalise them to encourage white settlement. Canada's policy to assimilate Aboriginal people through missionary-run residential...

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