Aboriginal People and Colonizers of Western Canada to 1900

Sarah Carter examines the complex and contested history of Indigenous–European relations in western Canada after contact. Focusing on the prairie region, Carter explores cultural, political, and economic interactions, including disease, the fur trade, missionary activity, treaties, Canadian government policy, and Indigenous responses to colonization. Drawing on extensive interdisciplinary scholarship, she emphasizes multiple perspectives and competing interpretations of historical events, highlighting how these debates connect to contemporary Indigenous–non-Indigenous relations.