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Fantasies of Sovereignty: Deconstructing British and Canadian Claims to Ownership of the Historic North-West

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Adam Gaudry
NAIS: Journal of the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association, vol. 3, no. 1, 2016, pp. 46-74
Description
"This article demonstrates that Canada's political claims to ownership over the North-West lay in problematic claims of sovereignty made by British and Canadian explorers, politicians, and businessmen, using language of discovery and sovereignty to obscure Indigenous governance already in practice".
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