Battle Grounds: The Canadian Military and Aboriginal Lands

by P. Whitney Lackenbauer

Book Overview

Base closures, use of airspace for weapons testing and low-level flying, environmental awareness, and Aboriginal land claims have focused attention in recent years on the use of Native lands for military training. But is the military's interest in Aboriginal lands new? Battle Grounds analyzes a century of government-Aboriginal interaction and negotiation to explore how the Canadian military came to use Aboriginal lands for training. It examines what...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0774813164
• ISBN13: 9780774813167
• Release Date: July 2007
• Publisher: University of British Columbia Press
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.26 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 8.9"