"You Have To Be Involved . To Play A Part in It" Assessing Kainai Attitudes about Voting In Canadian Elections

• Main Author: Belanger, Yale D.
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska - Lincoln 2009
• Subjects: Alberta; First Nations; interviewing; Kainai; voting; Other International and Area Studies; Canada; Harper; Churchill
• Online Access: https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/greatplainsquarterly/1147; https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/context/greatplainsquarterly/article/2146/viewcontent/Belanger.pdf

Two days prior to the federal election on June 28, 2004, the Lethbridge Herald ran an article in which the renowned Cree leader and former Member of Parliament Elijah Harper (Churchill electoral district in Manitoba, 1993-97) publicly implored First Nations people in Canada to participate in the for...