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Sarah Carter

Sarah Carter, F.R.S.C., is H.M. Tory Chair and Professor in the Department of History and Classics, and Faculty of Native Studies at the University of Alberta in Edmonton. She is a specialist in the history of Western Canada and is the author of Aboriginal People and Colonizers of Western Canada to 1900, Capturing Women, and Lost Harvests. Sarah Carter was awarded the Jensen-Miller Prize by the Coalition for Women's History for the best article published in 2006 in the field of women and gender in the trans-Mississippi West.

Books by Sarah Carter

Ancestors

Indigenous Peoples of Western Canada in Historic Photographs

by (author) Sarah Carter & Inez Lightning

Ours by Every Law of Right and Justice

Women and the Vote in the Prairie Provinces

by (author) Sarah Carter

Compelled to Act

Histories of Women's Activism in Western Canada 

edited by Sarah Carter & Nanci Langford

Lost Harvests

Prairie Indian Reserve Farmers and Government Policy, Second Edition

by (author) Sarah Carter

Mistress of Everything

Queen Victoria in Indigenous Worlds

edited by Sarah Carter & Maria Nugent

Imperial Plots

Women, Land, and the Spadework of British Colonialism on the Canadian Prairies

by (author) Sarah Carter

Recollecting

Lives of Aboriginal Women of the Canadian Northwest and Borderlands

edited by Sarah Carter & Patricia A. McCormack

The The West and Beyond

New Perspectives on an Imagined Region

edited by Alvin Finkel, Sarah Carter & Peter Fortna

The West and Beyond

New Perspectives on an Imagined Region

edited by Alvin Finkel, Sarah Carter & Peter Fortna

The Importance of Being Monogamous

Marriage and Nation Building in Western Canada to 1915

by (author) Sarah Carter

The Prairie West as Promised Land

contributions by R. Douglas Francis, Doug Owram, Chris Kitzan, Laurence Kitzan, Matthew Wrangler, David Hall, Sarah Carter, Anthony W. Rasporich, Bill Waiser, Randi Warne, Bradford J. Rennie, Catherine A. Cavanaugh, Steve Hewitt, George Melnyk, Michael Fedyk & Brett Fairbairn

One West, Two Myths II

Essays on Comparison

contributions by C.L. Higham, Robert Thacker, R. Douglas Francis, Brain W. Dippie, William H. Katerberg, Sarah Carter, Roger L. Nichols, David L. Williams, Lee Clark Mitchell, Aritha van Herk, Frederick Jackson Turner & J.M.S. Careless

Wheat and Woman

by (author) Georgina Binnie-Clark
introduction by Sarah Carter

Unsettled Pasts

Reconceiving the West through Women's History

contributions by Sarah Carter, Kristin Burnett, Christine Georgina Bye, Mary Leah De Zwart, Lesley A. Erickson, Cheryl Foggo, Nadine I. Kozak, Siri Louie, Graham A. Macdonald, Florence Melchior, Patricia A. Roome, Eliane Leslau Silverman, Olive Stickney, Aritha van Herk, Muriel Stanley Venne & Cora J. Voyageur
edited by Lesley Erickson, Patricia Roome & Char Smith

People of the Plains

by (author) Amelia M. Paget
introduction by Sarah Carter

Cowboys, Ranchers and the Cattle Business

Cross-Border Perspectives on Ranching History

edited by Simon M. Evans
contributions by Sarah Carter, Terry G. Jordan-Bychkov, Brain W. Dippie, Bill Yeo, Alan B. McCullough, Joy Oetelaar, Warren M. Elofson, Henry C. Klassen, Max Foran, Lorain Lounsberry & Richard W. Slatta

Aboriginal People and Colonizers of Western Canada to 1900

by (author) Sarah Carter

Two Months in the Camp of Big Bear

by (author) Theresa Delaney & Theresa Gowanlock
introduction by Sarah Carter

Capturing Women

The Manipulation of Cultural Imagery in Canada's Prairie West

by (author) Sarah Carter