Chiniki Lecture in First Nations History: Stoney-Nakoda and Banff National Park

Controlling and Constructing The Stoney-Nakoda: National Parks Exclusion, Banff Indian Days, Resistance and Agency Presentations by Melanie Niemi-Bohun and Jonathan Clapperton Saturday, March 22, 2 to 5 PM Admission by donation Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies 111 Bear Street Banff, Alberta This year’s Chiniki Lecture addresses the relationship between Banff National Park and the Stoney-Nakoda. Melanie Niemi-Bohun (University of Alberta, PhD Candidate) will show how Stoney-Nakoda exclusion from the park had much more to do with the interests of game conservation, sport hunting, and assimilation and not to keep a pristine wilderness uninhabited. Jonathan Clapperton (UofA, Postdoctoral Fellow) argues that Banff Indian Days was constructed to temporarily welcome Stoney-Nakoda back to the park in a ritual considered safe by onlookers, while asserting a broader role for themselves within the park and settler-colonial society. The 7th Annual Chiniki Lecture in First Nations History is presented by the University of Calgary’s History Graduate Students’ Union and the Stoney Tribal Administration.

Location:

Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies Banff

Speaker:

Melanie Niemi-Bohun and Jonathan Clapperton

More information at http://www.ucalgary.ca/events/calendar/chiniki-lecture-first-nations-history-stoney-nakoda-and-banff-national-park