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Authorized Heritage analyses the history of commemoration at heritage sites across western Canada. Using extensive research from predominantly government records, it argues that heritage narratives are almost always based on national messages that commonly reflect colonial perceptions of the past. Yet many of the places that commemorate Indigenous, fur trade, and settler histories are contested spaces, places such as Batoche, Seven Oaks, and Upper Fort Garry being the most obvious. At these heritage sites, Indigenous views of history confront the conventions of settler colonial pasts and represent the fluid cultural perspectives that should define the shifting ground of heritage space.
Robert Coutts brings his many years of experience as a public historian to this detailed examination of heritage sites across the prairies. He shows how the process of commemoration often reflects social and cultural perspectives that privilege a conventional and conservative national narrative. He also examines how class, gender, and sexuality often remain apart from the heritage discourse. Most notably, Authorized Heritage examines how governments became the mediators of what is heritage and, just as significantly, what is not.
Contents
Chapter 1 Landscapes of Memory in Prairie Canada
Chapter 2 Memory Hooks: Commemorating Indigenous Cultural Landscapes
Chapter 3 National Dreams: Commemorating the Fur Trade in Manitoba
Chapter 4 "We came. We toiled. God blessed": Settler Colonialism and Constructing Authenticity
Chapter 5 Contested Space: Heritage and Indigenous Places of Resistance
Chapter 6 Heritage Place: The Function of Modernity, Gender, and Sexuality
Chapter 7 Conclusion: History, Memory and the Heritage Discourse
