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Battle Grounds

The Canadian Military and Aboriginal Lands

by (author) P. Whitney Lackenbauer

Publisher
UBC Press
Initial publish date
Nov 2011
Category
Canada
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9780774840026
    Publish Date
    Nov 2011
    List Price
    $30.95
  • Hardback

    ISBN
    9780774813150
    Publish Date
    Dec 2006
    List Price
    $95.00
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780774813167
    Publish Date
    Jul 2007
    List Price
    $32.95

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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.

About the author

 

P. Whitney Lackenbauer is associate professor and chair of the Department of History at St. Jerome's University in the University of Waterloo, and a faculty associate with the LCMSDS.

Peter Kikkert recently completed his M.A. at the University of Waterloo and is a Ph.D. student in history at the University of Western Ontario.

 

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Editorial Reviews

This timely text will be of great assistance to those assisting the First Nations in the recovery of their ancestral lands. With maps, tables and illustrations, the author takes the reader through fifty years of native land takeovers by the Canadian military. This may well be the handbook for those assisting in land recovery or lease variation.

Fiat Justicia

... readers will be rewarded by a spirited and provocative introduction and conclusion and plenty of fresh research.

University of Toronto Quarterly, Vol. 77, No. 1, Winter 2008

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