Hoy, Benjamin
University of Saskatchewan, History
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Little Bear’s Cree and Canada’s Uncomfortable History of Refugee Creation
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Author/Creator
Benjamin Hoy
Description
Using the Cree refugee experience in the US following the 1885 resistance to discuss Canada's history of using the term refugee to distance themselves from political and legal responsibility to refugee conditions.
Policing Morality: Regulating Sexuality across the Canada-United States Border
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Benjamin Hoy
Canadian Historical Review, vol. 98, no. 1, March 2018, pp. 30-62
Description
Details the ways that Canadian and United States governments used boarder surveillance, extradition, and deprivation (of access to family and home communities; of intergenerational material wealth) to police interracial unions, adultery/non-marital cohabitation, bigamy, polygamy, divorce, illegitimate children, child stealing, and abortion, and other acts deemed sexually deviant.
Uncertain Counts: The Struggle to Enumerate First Nations in Canada and the United States, 1870-1911
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Benjamin Hoy
Ethnohistory, vol. 62, no. 4, October 2015, pp. 729-750
Description
Looks at reasons why Indian agents and national census takers often could not obtain accurate information, including: linguistic and cultural differences, distrust, uncertainty of racial categories, geographic mobility, and isolation of communities.