"Disinformation and smear" : the use of state propaganda and military force to suppress Aboriginal title at the 1995 Gustafsen Lake Standoff

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dc.contributor.authorMahony, Ben David
dc.contributor.authorUniversity of Lethbridge. Faculty of Arts and Science
dc.contributor.supervisorHall, Anthony
dc.date.accessioned2007-05-12T19:23:41Z
dc.date.available2007-05-12T19:23:41Z
dc.date.issued2001
dc.degree.levelMasters
dc.descriptioniii, 225, [44] leaves : ill. ; 28 cm.en
dc.description.abstractIn the summer of 1995, eighteen protesters came into armed conflict with over 400 RCMP officers and soldiers in central British Columbia. The conflict escalated into one of the costliest police operations in Canadian history. Many accounts of Aboriginal aggression provided by the RCMP are not consistent with evidence disclosed at the trial of the protesters. Moreover, the substance of the legal arguments at the heart of the Ts' Peten Defenders' resistance received little attention or serous analysis by state officials, police or the media. The RCMP constructed the Ts' Peten Defenders as terrorists and downplayed the use of state force that included military weaponry, land explosives and police snipers, who received orders to shoot to kill. Serious questions remain about the role of the RCMP, who acted as the enforement arm of state policies designed to constrain the effort to internationalize the Aboriginal title question.en
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10133/189
dc.language.isoen_USen
dc.publisherLethbridge, Alta. : University of Lethbridge, Faculty of Arts and Science, 2001en
dc.publisher.departmentDepartment of Native American Studies
dc.publisher.facultyArts and Science
dc.relation.ispartofseriesThesis (University of Lethbridge. Faculty of Arts and Science)en
dc.subjectSecwepemc (Shuswap) -- Land tenureen
dc.subjectIndigenous peoples -- British Columbia -- Gustafsen Lakeen
dc.subjectIndigenous peoples -- British Columbia -- Gustafsen Lake -- Land tenureen
dc.subjectSecwepemc (Shuswap) -- Government relationsen
dc.subjectIndigenous peoples -- British Columbia -- Gustafsen Lake -- Government relationsen
dc.subjectGustafsen Lake (B.C.)en
dc.subjectGustafsen Lake Standoff, B.C., 1995 -- Press coverageen
dc.subjectDissertations, Academicen
dc.title"Disinformation and smear" : the use of state propaganda and military force to suppress Aboriginal title at the 1995 Gustafsen Lake Standoffen
dc.typeThesisen
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