Blockades or Breakthroughs?: Aboriginal Peoples Confront the Canadian State

by P. Whitney Lackenbauer and Yale D Belanger

Blockades have become a common response to Canada's failure to address and resolve the legitimate claims of First Nations. Blockades or Breakthroughs? debates the importance and effectiveness of blockades and occupations as political and diplomatic tools for Aboriginal people. The adoption of direct action tactics like blockades and occupations is predicated on the idea that something drastic is needed for Aboriginal groups to break an unfavourable...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0773543910
• ISBN13: 9780773543911
• Release Date: January 2015
• Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
• Length: 488 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"