The Importance of Being Monogamous
Marriage and Nation Building in Western Canada in 1915
1st Edition
Published on 1. April 2008
400 pages
978-1-897425-19-0 (ISBN)
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Sarah Carter reveals the pioneering efforts of the government, legal, and religious authorities to impose the "one man, one woman" model of marriage upon Mormons and Aboriginal people in Western Canada. This lucidly written, richly researched book shifts our understanding of Aboriginal history during that time and brings together the fields of Indigenous and migrant history in new and important ways.
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The Importance of Being Monogamous
Marriage and Nation Building in Western Canada to 1915
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Sarah Carter is professor and Henry Marshall Tory Chair in both the Department of History and Classics and the Faculty of Native Studies at the University of Alberta. Her research focuses on the critical era that began in the late 19th century when Aboriginal people were dispossessed and a new population established in Western Canada.Sarah Carter is H.M. Tory Chair and professor in the Department of History and Classics and Faculty of Native Studies at the University of Alberta. She is a specialist in the history of Western Canada and is the author of Aboriginal People and Colonizers of Western Canada to 1900, Capturing Women, and Lost Harvests. Carter was awarded the Jensen-Miller Prize by the Coalition for Women's History for the best article published in 2006 in the field of women and gender in the trans-Mississippi West.
Sarah Carter is professor and Henry Marshall Tory Chair in both the Department of History and Classics and the Faculty of Native Studies at the University of Alberta. Her research focuses on the critical era that began in the late 19th century when Aboriginal people were dispossessed and a new population established in Western Canada.Sarah Carter is H.M. Tory Chair and professor in the Department of History and Classics and Faculty of Native Studies at the University of Alberta. She is a specialist in the history of Western Canada and is the author of Aboriginal People and Colonizers of Western Canada to 1900, Capturing Women, and Lost Harvests. Carter was awarded the Jensen-Miller Prize by the Coalition for Women's History for the best article published in 2006 in the field of women and gender in the trans-Mississippi West.
Content
Acknowledgements
1. Creating, Challenging, Imposing, and Defending the Marriage "Fortress"
2. Customs Not in Common: The Monogamous Ideal and Diverse Marital Landscape of Western Canada
3. Making Newcomers to Western Canada Monogamous
4. "A Striking Contrast .Where Perpetuity of Union and Exclusiveness is Not a Rule, at Least Not a Strict Rule": Plains Aboriginal Marriage
5. The 1886 "Traffic in Indian Girls" Panic and the Foundation of the Federal Approach to Aboriginal Marriage and Divorce
6. Creating "Semi-Widows" and "Supernumerary Wives": Prohibiting Polygamy in Prairie Canada's Aboriginal Communities
7. "Undigested, Conflicting and Inharmonious": Administering First Nations Marriage and Divorce
8. Conclusion
Appendix / Notes / Bibliography / Index
1. Creating, Challenging, Imposing, and Defending the Marriage "Fortress"
2. Customs Not in Common: The Monogamous Ideal and Diverse Marital Landscape of Western Canada
3. Making Newcomers to Western Canada Monogamous
4. "A Striking Contrast .Where Perpetuity of Union and Exclusiveness is Not a Rule, at Least Not a Strict Rule": Plains Aboriginal Marriage
5. The 1886 "Traffic in Indian Girls" Panic and the Foundation of the Federal Approach to Aboriginal Marriage and Divorce
6. Creating "Semi-Widows" and "Supernumerary Wives": Prohibiting Polygamy in Prairie Canada's Aboriginal Communities
7. "Undigested, Conflicting and Inharmonious": Administering First Nations Marriage and Divorce
8. Conclusion
Appendix / Notes / Bibliography / Index
