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The Burden of History: Colonialism and the Frontier Myth in a Rural Canadian Community mcgill-queens-university-press as well as more recentThis book is an ethnography of the cultural politics of Native non Native relations in a small interior BC city Williams Lake at the height of land claims conflicts and tensions. Furniss analyses contemporary colonial relations in settler societies, arguing that ordinary rural Euro Canadians exercise power in maintaining the subordination of aboriginal people through common sense assumptions and assertions about history, society, and identity, and