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Settler Colonial Suffragists and the Prairie Campaign<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Dr. Carter\u2019s presentation is drawn from a book to be published by the University of British Columbia Press called\u00a0\u2018Ours By Every Law of Right and Justice:\u2019 Women and the Vote <\/em>in the Prairie Provinces.<\/em>\u00a0This is the first book-length study of the women\u2019s suffrage campaigns in<\/p>\n

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the prairie provinces, and the first to situate this struggle in the context of the settler colonial history of the region. The suffrage movement coincided with the years of intense colonization of the West when the Indigenous population was outnumbered and marginalized. The settler women and men who\u00a0spearheaded the movement shared and furthered the goal of consolidating Euro-Canadian power.<\/p>\n

From Saskatoon, Sarah Carter FRSC is Professor and Henry Marshall Tory Chair in the Department of History and Classics, and the Faculty of Native Studies of the University of Alberta. Her M.A. is from the University of Saskatchewan and she completed her Ph.D at the University of Manitoba, publishing her dissertation as Lost Harvests: Prairie Indian Reserve Farmers and Government Policy<\/em>\u00a0(1990). She taught at the University of Calgary from 1992 to 2006. Her most recent book\u00a0Imperial Plots: Women, Land, and the Spadework of British Colonialism on the Canadian Prairies<\/em>\u00a0(2016) won several awards including the Governor General\u2019s History Award for Scholarly Research and the John A. Macdonald Prize of the Canadian Historical Association (CHA). She is a co-author of\u00a0The True Spirit and Original Intent of Treaty Seven\u00a0<\/em>(1996). Her most recent co-edited collection (with Maria Nugent) is\u00a0Mistress of Everything: Queen Victoria in Indigenous Worlds\u00a0<\/em>(Manchester University Press 2016).<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Settler Colonial Suffragists and the Prairie Campaign Dr. Carter\u2019s presentation is drawn from a book to be published by the University of British Columbia Press called\u00a0\u2018Ours By Every Law of Right and Justice:\u2019 Women and the Vote in the Prairie Provinces.\u00a0This is the first book-length study of the women\u2019s suffrage campaigns in the prairie provinces, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":597,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-56","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brandonu.ca\/wcsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/56","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brandonu.ca\/wcsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brandonu.ca\/wcsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brandonu.ca\/wcsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/597"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brandonu.ca\/wcsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.brandonu.ca\/wcsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/56\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59,"href":"https:\/\/www.brandonu.ca\/wcsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/56\/revisions\/59"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brandonu.ca\/wcsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}