Research Catalog

Title

A world we have lost : Saskatchewan before 1905 / Bill Waiser.

Author

Waiser, Bill, 1953-

Publication

• Markham, ON : Fifth House, 2016.
• ©2016

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Details

Description

xiii, 717 pages : illustrations (some color), maps; 26 cm

Summary

"A World We Have Lost examines the early history of Saskatchewan through an Aboriginal and environmental lens. Indian and mixed-descent peoples played leading roles in the story, as did the land and climate. Despite the growing British and Canadian presence, the Saskatchewan country remained Aboriginal territory. The region's peoples had their own interests and needs and the fur trade was often peripheral to their lives. Indians and Métis peoples wrangled over territory and resources, especially bison, and were not prepared to let outsiders control their lives, let alone decide their future. Native-newcomer interactions were consequently fraught with misunderstandings, sometimes painful difficulties, if not outright disputes. By the early nineteenth century, a distinctive western society had emerged in the North-West, one that was challenged and undermined by the takeover of the region by young dominion of Canada. Settlement and development was to be rooted in the best features of Anglo-Canadian civilization, including the white race. By the time Saskatchewan entered confederation as a province in 1905, the world that Kelsey had encountered during his historic walk on the northern prairies had become a world we have lost."--Publisher's website.

Subject

• Fur trade > Saskatchewan > History
• Indians of North America > Saskatchewan > History
• Indigenous peoples > Saskatchewan > History
• Indigenous peoples > Colonization > History. > Saskatchewan
• Indigenous peoples in Canada
• Indigenous peoples
• Indians of North America
• Fur trade
• Saskatchewan > History
• Saskatchewan

Genre/Form

History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction. Inland country of good report -- 1. Reliably unreliable -- 2. I shall howl -- 3. By all fair persuasion -- 4. A mere matter of paddling -- 5. All to no purpose -- 6. Disorder flying through the country -- 7. A cauldron of conflict -- 8. No allies, only interests -- 9. How very different -- 10. An aspiration rather than a reality -- 11. We think it the best -- 12. If something is not done -- 13. A great source of strength -- 14. Need expect nothing -- 15. Within a breath -- 16. A continent on the moon -- Epilogue. A good thing ahead of us.

ISBN

• 9781927083390
• 1927083397

LCCN

2016416774

OCLC

• ocn930258412
• 930258412
• SCSB-1857400

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library