Blockades or breakthroughs? : Aboriginal peoples confront the Canadian state

Belanger, Yale D. (Author). Belanger, Yale Deron, author. 1968- (Added Author). Lackenbauer, P. Whitney. (Added Author).

Summary: Debates the importance and effectiveness of blockades and occupations as political and diplomatic tools for Aboriginal people.

Record details

ISBN: 9780773543911 (pbk.)
Physical Description: print
viii, 466 p. : maps ; 23 cm.
Publisher: Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2014.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 449-458) and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Acknowledgments -- Maps -- Introduction - I. Point Pelee's summer discontent / John Sandlos - 2. The nature of a blackade: environmental politics and the Haida action on Lyell Island, British Columbia / David A. Rossiter - 3. Lubicon Lake: the success and failure of radical activism / Tom Flanagan - 4. "The war will be won when the last low-level flying happens here in our home": Innu opposition to low-level flying in Labrador / P. Whitney Lackenbauer - 5. A bridge too far? the Oka crisis - 6. The Oldman River Dam and the Lonefighter's response to environmental incursion / Yale D. Belanger - 7. The tragedy of Ipperwash / P. Whitney Lackenbauer with Victor Gulewitsch - 8. The Gustafsen Lake standoff / Nick Shrubsole and P. Whitney Lackenbauer - 9. Seeking relief: the dispute in burnt church / Sarah J. King - 10. Blockades, occupations, and the Bay of Quinte Mohawk's fight for sovereignty / Yale D. Belanger - 11. Your home on Native land?: conflict and controversy at Caledonia and the Six Nations of the Grand River / Timothy C. Winegard -- Contributors -- Select biography -- Index.