Ours by Every Law of Right and Justice

Sarah Carter is the author of numerous books and articles on the history of women and First Nations in Prairie Canada, including Imperial Plots: Women, Land, and the Spadework of British Colonialism on the Canadian Prairies, which won the Governor General's History Award for Scholarly Research and the Canadian Historical Association's Sir John A. Macdonald Prize. Recollecting: Lives of Aboriginal Women of the Canadian Northwest and Borderlands, which she edited with Patricia McCormack, won four prizes, including the Canadian Historical Association's Aboriginal History Award and the Coalition for Western Women's History's Armitage-Jameson Book Prize in North American women's and gender history. She is a professor and the Henry Marshall Tory Chair in the Department of History and Classics and the Faculty of Native Studies at the University of Alberta. In 2020, she was awarded the Killam Prize in the Humanities.

• Introduction1 Settler Suffragists: Context, Causes, Obstacles2 Manitoba: A Long-Sustained and Just Agitation3 Saskatchewan: A Spark Nearly Smothered4 Alberta: Plain, Old-Fashioned, Unfrilled Justice5 A New Day Coming? Essential by Incomplete VictoriesSources and Further Readings; Index

Carter's book is undoubtedly required reading not only for students of suffrage history, Prairie history and Canadian history more generally but also for scholars interested in the empirical investigation of that history. - Gerard Boychuk, University of Waterloo (Canadian Journal of Political Science) "Sarah Carter's decades-long expertise in Prairie history ensures that the objective of viewing women's suffrage in both the wider socio-political context and the local environmental setting are handled with aplomb."- Katie Pickles, University of Canterbury. (University of Toronto Quarterly.) With clarity, sensitivity and deftness, Carter shows that these activists' accomplishments, and the oppression they furthered, were equally real… she sets a useful template for historians to examine and understand other similarly complex events and figures in Canadian history.- Amy Shaw, associate professor, University of Lethbridge (Canadian Journal of History) Outstanding research and a fluid writing style make this book an impressive, useful, and accessible history of Canadian women's fight for suffrage. Carter's portraits of the women leading the efforts bring the period to life for the reader ... It delves into complex political and sociological aspects of the movement and the unsettling biases of the movers. It includes the perspectives of Indigneous peoples, white British settlers, ethnic minorities, farm women, and the working class. An important contribution to women's studies. - WILLA Literary Award for Scholarly Nonfiction Judges