Prison Of Grass : Canada From A Native Point Of View

Howard Adams (1921–2001), a Métis scholar born in St. Louis, Saskatchewan, drew on a life shaped by poverty, racism, and later academic training in Canada and the United States to develop a sustained critique of Canadian colonial society. Educated at UBC, the University of Toronto, and the University of California, Berkeley, where he completed a doctorate in the history of education, Adams combined personal experience with historical analysis to examine the enduring structures of colonial power. In this work he blends autobiography and social history, writing from a distinctly Métis perspective to explore how colonialism has shaped Indigenous identity, community life, and relations with the Canadian state.