Clear-cutting and colonialism: The ethnopolitical dynamics of indigenous environmental activism in Northwestern Ontario

Ethnohistory

Volumn 56, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 35-67

  Willow, Anna J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

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EID: 63349083061     PISSN: 00141801     EISSN: 15275477     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1215/00141801-2008-035     Document Type: Review

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