Year: 2015, 2015
Member of: Trent University Graduate Thesis Collection
Abstract: <p>The development of pan-Indigenous political organizations in northeastern Alberta in the context of oil and gas development during the 1970s created disparate effects on Indigenous communities in the region. Resistance to assimilation policies led the Indian Association of Alberta to transform itself into a unified voice that represented Aboriginal and treaty rights in the late 1960s;… more Full Text: RIGHTS, RESOURCES, AND RESISTANCE: PAN-INDIGENOUS POLITICAL ORGANIZATIONS IN NORTHEASTERN ALBERTA, 1968-1984 A Thesis Submitted to the Committee on Graduate Studies in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts in the Faculty …