The Seven Oaks Incident and the Construction of a Historical Tradition, 1816 to 1970
The Seven Oaks incident, a violent clash between Métis and Hudson's Bay Company/Selkirk settlers at Red River in 1816, was long represented in Canadian historical discourse as a "massacre." In investigating the genesis of this interpretation, the paper examines the primary record and...
Published in: | Journal of the Canadian Historical Association |
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Language: | English |
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The Canadian Historical Association/La Société historique du Canada
1991
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Online Access: | http://id.erudit.org/iderudit/031029ar https://doi.org/10.7202/031029ar |