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