The University of Calgary History Graduate Students’ Union Stoney Tribal
Administration and the Banff Centre are pleased to present the 8th Annual Chiniki
Lecture in First Nations History. For eight years the Chiniki Lecture has fostered
a dialogue on First Nations History bringing together academics First Nations
communities and the general public.
This year’s lecture will feature historians Maureen Lux and Frits Pannekoek.
Maureen Lux (Brock University) is the author of Medicine that Walks: Disease
Medicine and Canadian Plains Native People 1880-1940 (University of Toronto Press:
2001) and will be presenting material from a new book project in her talk “‘Neither
law nor treaty’: Indian Hospitals and the construction of National Health.”
Frits Pannekoek edited Behind the Man: John Laurie Ruth Gorman and the Indian vote
in Canada (University of Calgary: 2007) and will be addressing the struggle for
First Nations’ political rights. His talk is entitled “The Indian Association of
Alberta Ruth Gorman and John Laurie – The Vote for Treaty People.”
