W. Keith Regular

W. Keith Regular is a high school history and social studies teacher in Elkford, British Columbia. He received a PhD in history from Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Neighbours and Networks
The Blood Tribe in the Southern Alberta

W. Keith Regular

Neighbours and Networks explores the economic relationship between the Blood Indian reserve and the surrounding region of southern Alberta between 1884 and 1939. The Blood tribe, though living on a reserve, refused to become economically isolated from the larger community and became significant contributors to the regional economy.

Regular's study fills the gap left by Canadian historiography that has largely ignored the economic associations between Natives and non-Natives in a common environment. He refutes the perception that Native reserves have played only a minor role in regional development, and provides an excellent example of a cross- cultural, cooperative economic relationship in the post-treaty period on the Canadian plains.

University of Calgary Press