Battle Grounds

P. Whitney Lackenbauer is an assistant professor in the Department of History at St. Jerome's University

This timely text will be of great assistance to those assisting the First Nations in the recovery of their ancestral lands. With maps, tables and illustrations, the author takes the reader through fifty years of native land takeovers by the Canadian military. This may well be the handbook for those assisting in land recovery or lease variation. - Ronald F. MacIsaac (Fiat Justicia) ... readers will be rewarded by a spirited and provocative introduction and conclusion and plenty of fresh research. - Desmond Morton (University of Toronto Quarterly, Vol. 77, No. 1, Winter 2008)

• PrefaceIntroduction1 A Road to Nowhere? The Search for Sites in British Columbia, 1907-302 Governmental Uncertainty: The Militia and the Sarcee Reserve, 1908-393 "Pay No Attention to Sero": Imperial Flying Training at Tyendinaga, 1917-184 The Thin Edge of a Wedge? The British Commonwealth Air Training Plan and Aboriginal Lands, 1940-455 Combined Operation: Creating Camp Ipperwash, 1942-456 The Cold War at Cold Lake: The Primrose Lake Air Weapons Range, 1951-657 Into the Driver's Seat? The Department of National Defence and the Sarcee Band, 1945-828 Renegotiating Relationships: Competing Claims in the 1970s and 1980s9 Closing Out the Century ReflectionsAppendicesNotesSelected BibliographyIndex