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Pamela Klassen

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God Keep our Land: The Legal Ritual of the McKenna-McBride Commission, 1913–1916

A discussion of the testimonies of Indigenous peoples of the northwest coast during a governmental commission, in which they clearly spelled out their ongoing resistance to colonial rule, and to the Canadian myth of itself as a “resource-rich” nation in which the Indigenous people just needed to get out of the way.


“God Keep our Land: The Legal Ritual of the McKenna-McBride Commission, 1913–1916,” Religion and the Exercise of Public Authority, edited by Benjamin Berger and Richard Moon, London: Hart Publishing, pp. 79–93, 2016.

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