Authorized Heritage analyses the history of commemoration at
heritage sites across western Canada. Using extensive research from
predominantly government records, it argues that heritage
narratives are almost always based on national messages that
commonly reflect colonial perceptions of the past. Yet many of the
places that commemorate Indigenous, fur trade, and settler
histories are contested spaces, places such as Batoche, Seven Oaks,
and Upper Fort Garry being the most obvious. At these heritage
sites, Indigenous views of history confront the conventions of
settler colonial pasts and represent the fluid cultural
perspectives that should define the shifting ground of heritage
space. Robert Coutts brings his many years of experience as a
public historian to this detailed examination of heritage sites
across the prairies. He shows how the process of commemoration
often reflects social and cultural perspectives that privilege a
conventional and conservative national narrative. He also examines
how class, gender, and sexuality often remain apart from the
heritage discourse. Most notably, Authorized Heritage examines how
governments became the mediators of what is heritage and, just as
significantly, what is not.
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