Great Plains Studies, Center for
Date of this Version
1994
Abstract
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.
Comments
Published in Great Plains Quarterly 14:3 (Summer 1994). Copyright © 1994 Center for Great Plains Studies, University of Nebraska–Lincoln.