Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction
by Larry Hannant
PART I
Indigenous Activism and Resistance
Introduction
by Leon Crane Bear
1. Indian Status as the Foundation of Justice
by Leon Crane Bear
2. Teaching It Our Way: Blue Quills and the Demand for Indigenous Educational Autonomy
by Tarisa Dawn Little
3. “We are on the outside looking in [. . .]. But we are still Indians”: Alberta Indigenous Women Fighting for Status Rights, 1968–85
by Corinne George
PART II
Defying Heteropatriarchy
Introduction
by Karissa Robyn Patton
4. Fed Up with the Status Quo: Alberta Women’s Groups Challenge Maternalist Ideology and Secure Provincial Funding for Daycare, 1964–71
by Tom Langford
5. Gay Liberation in Conservative Calgary
by Nevena Ivanović, Kevin Allen, and Larry Hannant
6. Contraception, Community, and Controversy: The Lethbridge Birth Control and Information Centre, 1972–78
by Karissa Robyn Patton
7. “Ultra Activists” in a “Very Closeted Place”: The Early Years of Edmonton’s Gay Alliance Toward Equality, 1972–77
by Erin Gallagher-Cohoon
PART III
Doing Politics in a New Way
Introduction
by Larry Hannant
8. Daring to Be Left in Social Credit Alberta: Recollections of a Young New Democratic Party Activist in the 1960s
by Ken Novakowski
9. Socialist Survival: The Woodsworth-Irvine Socialist Fellowship and the Preservation of Radical Thought in Alberta
by Mack Penner
10. Learning Marxism from Tom Flanagan: Left-Wing Activism at the University of Calgary in the Late 1960s and Early 1970s
by Larry Hannant
11. Drop In, Hang Out, and Crash: Outreach Programs for Transient Youth and War Resisters in Edmonton
by Baldwin Reichwein and PearlAnn Reichwein
12. Solidarity on the Cricket Pitch: Confronting South African Apartheid in Edmonton
by Larry Hannant
PART IV
Countercultural and Environmental Radicalism
Introduction
by Larry Hannant
13. From Nuclear Disarmament to Raging Granny: A Recollection of Peace Activism and Environmental Advocacy in the 1960s and 1970s
by Louise Swift
14. The Mill Creek Park Movement and Citizen Activism in Edmonton, 1964–75
by PearlAnn Reichwein and Jan Olson
15. “A Lot of Heifer-Dust”: Alberta Maverick Marion Nicoll and Abstract Art
by Jennifer E. Salahub
16. Land and Love in the Rockies: The Poetic Politics of Sid Marty and Headwaters
by PearlAnn Reichwein
17. Death of a Delta
by Tom Radford
Conclusion: Bucking Conservatism, Then and Now
by Karissa Robyn Patton and Mack Penner
List of Contributors
