Occupied Canada

by Robert Hunter and Robert Hunter

Book Overview

Book by Hunter, Robert and Robert Calihoo This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0771042957
• ISBN13: 9780771042959
• Release Date: January 1991
• Publisher: McClelland & Stewart
• Length: 271 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.

Customer Reviews

A tale of Canadian injustice

After his grandmother, who had been raising him, died, Robert Royer--who by all appearances was just another white kid--learns that he is in fact the son of an Indian father. Eventually, he has no other place to turn, and goes to live with his father in a small, remote reservation in northern Alberta. It is here that his life is radically transformed by the dire plight of Canada's First Nations. When the band decides to become enfranchised, Robert (now Robert Calihoo) drifts back to his old hometown of Edmonton, and is soon destitute and engaged in criminal activity. Eventually incarcerated, he witnesses first hand how the justice system deals with Indians, and resolves to do something about it; in the process, he learns of the true nature of the European invasion and occupation of the continent, and the story of his own ancestors, the Karhiio (a small band of Iroquois who left the Great Lakes region to settle an unoccupied (by other Natives) tract of land in what is now Alberta), and the issues surrounding the creation and dissolution of the Michel Indian Reserve. This is a very eye-opening story, one that calls into question (yet again) just how just Canada can truly claim to be.