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Views from Fort Battleford: Constructed Visions of an Anglo-Canadian West (Canadian Plains Studies)
Walter Hildebrandt
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Description for Views from Fort Battleford: Constructed Visions of an Anglo-Canadian West (Canadian Plains Studies)
Paperback. Num Pages: 130 pages, b/w illus. BIC Classification: 1KBC; HBJK; HBLL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 242 x 164 x 12. Weight in Grams: 412.
The myth of the Mounties as neutral arbiters between Aboriginal peoples and incoming settlers remains a cornerstone of the western Canadian narrative of a peaceful frontier experience that differs dramatically from its American equivalent. Walter Hildebrandt eviscerates this myth, placing the NWMP and early settlement in an international framework of imperialist plunder and the imposition of colonialist ideology. Fort Battleford, as an architectural endeavour, and as a Euro-Canadian settlement, oozed British and central Canadian values. The Mounties, like the Ottawa government that paid their salaries, "were in the West to assure that a new cultural template of social behaviour would ... Read more
The myth of the Mounties as neutral arbiters between Aboriginal peoples and incoming settlers remains a cornerstone of the western Canadian narrative of a peaceful frontier experience that differs dramatically from its American equivalent. Walter Hildebrandt eviscerates this myth, placing the NWMP and early settlement in an international framework of imperialist plunder and the imposition of colonialist ideology. Fort Battleford, as an architectural endeavour, and as a Euro-Canadian settlement, oozed British and central Canadian values. The Mounties, like the Ottawa government that paid their salaries, "were in the West to assure that a new cultural template of social behaviour would ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
University of Regina Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
130
Place of Publication
Regina, Canada
ISBN
9780889772205
SKU
V9780889772205
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About Walter Hildebrandt
Walter Hildebrandt is a poet and historian and co-author of The True Spirit and Original Intent of Treaty 7.
Reviews for Views from Fort Battleford: Constructed Visions of an Anglo-Canadian West (Canadian Plains Studies)
"Walter Hildebrandt uses Fort Battleford as a lens through which to view the changes in the late 19th-century North-West caused by the arrival of Canadian federal authority. And he pulls no punches, calling this process by its proper name: imperial conquest. In listening carefully to the voices of the dispossessed First Nations and Metis peoples, Hildebrandt offers a challenge to ... Read more