Riding into Place: Contact Zones, Rodeo, and Hybridity in the Canadian West 1900–1970

• Published in: Journal of the Canadian Historical Association
• Main Author: Kelm, Mary-Ellen
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: The Canadian Historical Association/La Société historique du Canada 2007
• Subjects: anthro-se; scipo; British Columbia; Canada; First Nations; Premières Nations
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.7202/018256ar; http://id.erudit.org/iderudit/018256ar

Each year, people gathered in small towns across the Canadian west to participate in rodeos and stampedes. While these events were often organized to promote and celebrate the non-Native community, organizers were keen to invite Aboriginal people. And Aboriginal people flocked to them. This paper ex...