A World You Do Not Know Settler Societies, Indigenous Peoples and the Attack on Cultural Diversity

A World You Do Not Know explores the wilful ignorance demonstrated by North America's settlers in establishing their societies on lands already occupied by indigenous nations. Using the Innu of Labrador-Quebec as one powerful contemporary example, Colin Samson shows how the processes of displac...

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Main Author: Samson, Colin (auth)
Format: Electronic Book Chapter
Language:English
Published: London University of London Press 2013
Series:Critical Human Rights Studies
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