Review of Aberhart: Outpourings and Replies

• Main Author: Kroetsch, Robert
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska - Lincoln 1994
• Subjects: Other International and Area Studies; Metis
• Online Access: https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/greatplainsquarterly/844; https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/context/greatplainsquarterly/article/1843/viewcontent/Kroetsch_GPQ_1994_Aberhart.pdf

From Louis Riel, leader of the Canadian prairie Metis, to Preston Manning, Alberta-based leader of the Reform Party in the Canadian Parliament, men who somehow mix politics and religion have given political expression to the Canadian West. In recent years William van der Zalm spoke from this base for British Columbia. But it was William Aber-hart who gave most radical voice to a complex of political anxieties and resistances that we might now call postcolonial. He enacted, vividly and sometimes confusedly, the resistance of the margin to the center.