Historical writing on the prairie west / Gerald Friesen -- A century of plain and parkland / W.L. Morton -- A historical reconstruction for the northwestern plains / Olive Patrica Dickason -- Traders and Indians / Daniel Francis -- The Indian and the Fur Trade : a review of literature / Jacqueline Peterson with John Anfinson -- The Metis : genesis and rebirth / Jennifer S.H. Brown -- The Manitoba Land Question, 1870-1882 / D.N. Sprague -- Dispossession or adaptation? Migration and persistence of the Red River Metis, 1835-1890 / Gerhard Ens -- "Conspiracy and Treason" : The Red River Resistance from an expansionist perspective / Doug Owram -- From Riel to the Metis / J.R. Miller -- Protection, civilization, assimilation : an outline history of Canda's Indian Policy . John L. Tobias -- Canadianizing the west : the North-West Mounted Police as agents of the National Policy, 1873-1905 / R.C. Macleod -- The National Policy and the rate of prairie settlement : a review / Kenneth H. Norrie -- Western Canada and the burden of national transportation policies / T.D. Regehr -- The schooling experience of Ukrainians in Manitoba, 1896-1916 / Stella M. Hryniuk and Neil G. McDonald -- Strangers and stereotypes : the rise of Nativism, 1880-1920 / Howard Palmer -- The old homestead : romance and reality / Wilfred Eggleston -- Utopian ideals and community setllements in western Canada, 1880-1914 / A.W. Rasporich -- The "Autonomy Question" and the creation fo Alberta and Saskatchewan, 1905 / J. William Brennan -- Pulling in double harness or hauling a double load : women, work and feminism, on the Canadian Prairie / Veronica Strong-Boag -- Amelia Turner and Calgary labour women, 1919-1935 / Patrica Roome -- "There is some power about the land" -- The Western Agrarian Press and country life ideaology / Davis C. Jones -- The business of agriculture : prairie farmers and the adoption of "Business Methods," 1880-1950 / Ian MacPherson and John Herd Thompson -- Rual local history and the prairie west / Paul Voisey -- Boosterism and the development of prairie cities, 1871-1913 / Alan F.J. Artibise -- Early working-class life on the prairies / Joe Cherwinski -- The social gospel as the religion of the Agrarian Revolt / Richard Allen -- Crypto-Liberalism / David Laycock -- Our world stopped and we got off / James Gray -- The pattern of prairie politics / Nelson Wiseman -- Alberta Social Credit reappraised : the radical character of the early Social Credit movement / Alvin Finkel -- Political discontent in the prairie west : patternes of continuity and change / Roger Gibbins -- A regional ecomomic overview of the west since 1945 / Kenneth H. Norrie -- Changing images of the west . R. Douglas Francis -- Fictions of the American and Canadian wests / Dick Harrison.
Summary:
This collection of 35 readings on Canadian prairie history includes overview interpretation and current research on topics such as the fur trade, native peoples, ethnic groups, status of women, urban and rural society, the Great Depression and literature and art.
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.