Contents

Preface

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Larry Hannant

PART I
Indigenous Activism and Resistance

Introduction

Leon Crane Bear

1. Indian Status as the Foundation of Justice

Leon Crane Bear

2. Teaching It Our Way: Blue Quills and the Demand for Indigenous Educational Autonomy

Tarisa Dawn Little

3. “We are on the outside looking in [. . .]. But we are still Indians”: Alberta Indigenous Women Fighting for Status Rights, 1968–85

Corinne George

PART II
Defying Heteropatriarchy

Introduction

Karissa Robyn Patton

4. Fed Up with the Status Quo: Alberta Women’s Groups Challenge Maternalist Ideology and Secure Provincial Funding for Daycare, 1964–71

Tom Langford

5. Gay Liberation in Conservative Calgary

Nevena Ivanović, Kevin Allen, and Larry Hannant

6. Contraception, Community, and Controversy: The Lethbridge Birth Control and Information Centre, 1972–78

Karissa Robyn Patton

7. “Ultra Activists” in a “Very Closeted Place”: The Early Years of Edmonton’s Gay Alliance Toward Equality, 1972–77

Erin Gallagher-Cohoon

PART III
Doing Politics in a New Way

Introduction

Larry Hannant

8. Daring to Be Left in Social Credit Alberta: Recollections of a Young New Democratic Party Activist in the 1960s

Ken Novakowski

9. Socialist Survival: The Woodsworth-Irvine Socialist Fellowship and the Preservation of Radical Thought in Alberta

Mack Penner

10. Learning Marxism from Tom Flanagan: Left-Wing Activism at the University of Calgary in the Late 1960s and Early 1970s

Larry Hannant

11. Drop In, Hang Out, and Crash: Outreach Programs for Transient Youth and War Resisters in Edmonton

Baldwin Reichwein and PearlAnn Reichwein

12. Solidarity on the Cricket Pitch: Confronting South African Apartheid in Edmonton

Larry Hannant

PART IV
Countercultural and Environmental Radicalism

Introduction

Larry Hannant

13. From Nuclear Disarmament to Raging Granny: A Recollection of Peace Activism and Environmental Advocacy in the 1960s and 1970s

Louise Swift

14. The Mill Creek Park Movement and Citizen Activism in Edmonton, 1964–75

PearlAnn Reichwein and Jan Olson

15. “A Lot of Heifer-Dust”: Alberta Maverick Marion Nicoll and Abstract Art

Jennifer E. Salahub

16. Land and Love in the Rockies: The Poetic Politics of Sid Marty and Headwaters

PearlAnn Reichwein

17. Death of a Delta

Tom Radford

Conclusion: Bucking Conservatism, Then and Now

Karissa Robyn Patton and Mack Penner

List of Contributors