Georges Erasmus's Fifty-Year Battle for Indigenous Rights
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Wayne K. Spear
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Georges Erasmus
A political biography of an Indigenous leader and his five decades of activism and political engagement
Takes readers through the key moments of Indigenous activism in Canada: including land claim disputes, Berger Inquiry on pipelines, the Oka Crisis, and the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples
When Georges Erasmus was the national chief of the Assembly of First Nations he was referred to as the "thirteenth premier"
Co-author Wayne K. Spear is a frequent collaborator and former speechwriter for Erasmus