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#ÉlénaChoquette discusses her book #LandAndTheLiberalProject: #Canada's Violent Expansion

Choquette 'investigates the liberal concept that underpinned land appropriation and legitimized violence: #Indigenous territory and people were to be “improved,” the former by agrarian capitalism, the latter by so-called protection and enforced schooling.'

https://newbooksnetwork.com/land-and-the-liberal-project

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#OnThisDay, 22 June 1812, Canadian Laura Secord is said to have walked 19 miles to warn British forces of an impending American attack in the War of 1812.

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