Base closures, use of airspace for weapons testing and low-level flying, environmental awareness, and Aboriginal land claims have focused attention in recent years on the use of Native lands for military training. But is the military?s interest in Aboriginal lands new? Battle Grounds analyzes a century of government-Aboriginal interaction and negotiation to explore how the Canadian military came to use Aboriginal lands for training.?It?examines what the process reveals about the larger and evolving relationship between governments and?Aboriginal communities and how increasing Aboriginal assertiveness and activism have affected the issue.
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- Bibliography, etc. Note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
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- CaOOCEL
- Dewey Decimal Classification Number
- 333.2
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- Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
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- 9780774855266 0774813156
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- E92
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- L325 2007eb
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- 1 electronic text (xvii, 350 p.)
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- Canada
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- (CaBNVSL)slc00208540 (OCoLC)649988573 (CaOOCEL)408582
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Table of Contents
- Contents 6
- Maps, Tables, Illustrations 7
- Preface 9
- Acknowledgments 17
- Abbreviations 19
- Introduction 22
- 1 A Road to Nowhere? The Search for Sites in British Columbia, 1907-30 32
- 2 Governmental Uncertainty: The Militia and the Sarcee Reserve, 1908-39 58
- 3 ‘Pay No Attention to Sero’: Imperial Flying Training at Tyendinaga, 1917-18 83
- 4 The Thin Edge of a Wedge? The British Commonwealth Air Training Plan and Aboriginal Lands, 1940-45 102
- 5 Combined Operation: Creating Camp Ipperwash, 1942-45 134
- 6 The Cold War at Cold Lake: The Primrose Lake Air Weapons Range, 1951-65 163
- 7 Into the Driver’s Seat? The Department of National Defence and the Sarcee Band, 1945-82 195
- 8 Renegotiating Relationships: Competing Claims in the 1970s and 1980s 221
- 9 Closing Out the Century 249
- Reflections 271
- Appendix A: Cases in Which the Canadian Military Formally Acquired Indian Reserve Lands 283
- Appendix B: Order-in-Council PC 2193 285
- Notes 287
- Selected Bibliography 349
- Index 360
- A 360
- B 360
- C 361
- D 362
- E 362
- F 362
- G 363
- H 363
- I 363
- J 364
- K 364
- L 365
- M 365
- N 366
- O 367
- P 367
- Q 367
- R 367
- S 367
- T 369
- U 369
- V 369
- W 369
- Y 369
