In spite of taking on violence against Indian women on reservations, I’m talking about men and women, enrolled and white, different countries, reservations and none, because I think it’s all complexified together — one of those “Five Per Cent” problems [see the book with that title -- I reviewed it earlier] that just doesn’t seem to get solved because the...

From the point of view of the British Empire — which was a strange melding of international corporation, religion, and monarchy (Queen as CEO) –  “Rupert’s Land” in western Canada was simply a feeder for the Hudson’s Bay Company.  The trapper’s trading forts there were profitable until fashions changed away from beaver-fur felt hats.  Then the...