Unsettled expectations : uncertainty, land and settler decolonization /

Unsettled Expectations is a critical multisite ethnography that examines conflict over Indigenous land rights in Canada and the United States as a lens through which to understand historical and ongoing relationships between Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples in settler colonies. The goal of the...

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Main Author: Mackey, Eva, 1956- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Black Point, Nova Scotia : Fernwood Publishing, [2016]
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