Ours by Every Law of Right and Justice: Women and the Vote in the Prairie Provinces, Sarah Carter

Автор: Sarah Carter
Название: Lost Harvests: Prairie Indian Reserve Farmers and Government Policy, Second Edition
ISBN: 077355744X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780773557444
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: Agriculture on Plains Indian reserves is generally thought to have failed because the Indigenous people lacked either an interest in farming or an aptitude for it. In Lost Harvests Sarah Carter reveals that reserve residents were anxious to farm and expended considerable effort on cultivation; government policies, more than anything else, acted to undermine their success. Despite repeated requests for assistance from Plains Indians, the Canadian government provided very little help between 1874 and 1885, and what little they did give proved useless. Although drought, frost, and other natural phenomena contributed to the failure of early efforts, reserve farmers were determined to create an economy based on agriculture and to become independent of government regulations and the need for assistance. Officials in Ottawa, however, attributed setbacks not to economic or climatic conditions but to the Indians' character and traditions which, they claimed, made the Indians unsuited to agriculture. In the decade following 1885 government policies made farming virtually impossible for the Plains Indians. They were expected to subsist on one or two acres and were denied access to any improvements in technology: farmers had to sow seed by hand, harvest with scythes, and thresh with flails. After the turn of the century, the government encouraged land surrenders in order to make good agricultural land available to non-Indian settlers. This destroyed any chance the Plains Indians had of making agriculture a stable economic base. Through an examination of the relevant published literature and of archival sources in Ottawa, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and Alberta, Carter provides an in-depth study of government policy, Indian responses, and the socio-economic condition of the reserve communities on the prairies in the post-treaty era. The new introduction by the author offers a reflection on Lost Harvests, the influences that shaped it, and the issues and approaches that remain to be explored.

Автор: Carter Maureen
Название: Next of Kin: A Sarah Quinn Police Procedural
ISBN: 1847516734 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781847516732
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Описание: "Ice-cool Detective Inspector Sarah Quinn and fiery reporter Caroline King lock horns once again in this latest intriguing mystery. "
When the body of a teenage girl is found in a local park, it is assumed she is the latest victim of a serial sex offender who has been plaguing the area. But when it transpires that the dead girl s best friend is missing, DI Sarah Quinn is drawn into a complex murder investigation where nothing is as it seems.
With the investigation heading nowhere - not helped by the hostility of the victim s distraught father, nor by Sarah s unsympathetic new Chief Superintendent who seems determined to undermine her a shocking turn of events leads Sarah to question her own judgement. And that s before she encounters her old foe, calculating journalist Caroline King "