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Bucking Conservatism: Part I: Indigenous Activism and Resistance

Bucking Conservatism
Part I: Indigenous Activism and Resistance

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table of contents
  1. Cover
  2. Preface
  3. Acknowledgements
  4. Introduction
  5. Part I: Indigenous Activism and Resistance
    1. Introduction
    2. 1. Indian Status as the Foundation of Justice
    3. 2. Teaching It Our Way: Blue Quills and the Demand for Indigenous Educational Autonomy
    4. 3. “We are on the outside looking in [. . .]. But we are still Indians”: Alberta Indigenous Women Fighting for Status Rights, 1968–85
  6. Part II: Defying Heteropatriarchy
    1. Introduction
    2. 4. Fed Up with the Status Quo: Alberta Women’s Groups Challenge Maternalist Ideology and Secure Provincial Funding for Daycare, 1964–71
    3. 5. Gay Liberation in Conservative Calgary
    4. 6. Contraception, Community, and Controversy: The Lethbridge Birth Control and Information Centre, 1972–78
    5. 7. “Ultra Activists” in a “Very Closeted Place”: The Early Years of Edmonton’s Gay Alliance Toward Equality, 1972–77
  7. Part III: Doing Politics in a New Way
    1. Introduction
    2. 8. Daring to Be Left in Social Credit Alberta: Recollections of a Young New Democratic Party Activist in the 1960s
    3. 9. Socialist Survival: The Woodsworth-Irvine Socialist Fellowship and the Preservation of Radical Thought in Alberta
    4. 10. Learning Marxism from Tom Flanagan: Left-Wing Activism at the University of Calgary in the Late 1960s and Early 1970s
    5. 11. Drop In, Hang Out, and Crash: Outreach Programs for Transient Youth and War Resisters in Edmonton
    6. 12. Solidarity on the Cricket Pitch: Confronting South African Apartheid in Edmonton
  8. Part IV: Countercultural and Environmental Radicalism
    1. Introduction
    2. 13. From Nuclear Disarmament to Raging Granny: A Recollection of Peace Activism and Environmental Advocacy in the 1960s and 1970s
    3. 14. The Mill Creek Park Movement and Citizen Activism in Edmonton, 1964–75
    4. 15. “A Lot of Heifer-Dust”: Alberta Maverick Marion Nicoll and Abstract Art
    5. 16. Land and Love in the Rockies: The Poetic Politics of Sid Marty and Headwaters
    6. 17. Death of a Delta
  9. Conclusion: Bucking Conservatism, Then and Now
  10. List of Contributors

PART I
Indigenous Activism and Resistance

A black-and-white photograph shows a group of Calgary Urban Treaty Indian Alliance members seated in a circle.

Calgary Urban Treaty Indian Alliance members occupy the Calgary office of the Department of Indian Affairs, 20 August 1974, demanding assistance for a self-help agency in the city. Courtesy of Calgary Herald Photograph Collection, Glenbow Archives, Calgary, NA-2864-25985-15

The members of the alliance sit around a drum and beat on it with sticks. The other members of the group including several women stand in a semicircle behind them holding up flags.

“His station did not run any FOREIGN language broadcasts”

A group of chiefs, meeting in the city, was addressed by a provincial government official. […]

[One chief] explained the difficulty encountered in attempting to communicate with the white man.

He said he and another Indian approached the operators of a radio station in the province with the view of having a 15-minute radio program in CREE broadcast every week.

The radio station official, he said, was very kind but explained that his station did not run any FOREIGN language broadcasts.

Later they went back, explained the proposition to a HIGHER official of the station. Now the Cree program is on the air.

“Frank Hutton’s Notebook,” Edmonton Journal, 12 January 1967, p. 3

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