The Red River Colony was the Hudson's Bay Company's first planned settlement. As a settler-colonial project par excellence, it was designed to undercut Indigenous peoples' "troublesome" autonomy and better control their labour. In this critical re-evaluation of the history of the Red River Colony, Susan Dianne Brophy upends standard accounts by foregrounding Indigenous producers as a driving force of change. A Legacy of Exploitation challenges the enduring yet misleading fantasy of Canada as a glorious nation of adventurers, showing how autonomy can become distorted as complicity in processes of dispossession.

Book Information
ISBN 9780774866354
Author Susan Dianne Brophy
Format Hardback
Page Count 296
Imprint University of British Columbia Press
Publisher University of British Columbia Press
Weight(grams) 152g