Today our guest is Dr. Adele Per­ry, Pro­fes­sor in the depart­ment of His­to­ry in the Fac­ul­ty of Arts at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Man­i­to­ba. We dis­cuss Dr. Per­ry’s most recent con­tri­bu­tion to ARP Books’ Sem­a­phore Series — Aque­duct: Colo­nial­ism, Resources, and the His­to­ries We Remem­ber. –Aque­duct– is a book about the mech­a­nisms of pow­er that facil­i­tat­ed the con­struc­tion and com­ple­tion of the Win­nipeg Aque­duct and its impact on Shoal Lake FN ter­ri­to­ry. Dr. Per­ry ​‘s work is a small book about a big idea, inves­ti­gat­ing crit­i­cal con­ver­sa­tions about Nation­al mytholo­gies, set­tler colo­nial­ism, civic/​provincial/​federal/​international biopol­i­tics, and the medi­a’s role in spin­ning sto­ries of col­o­niza­tion and human rights infrac­tions. Her work serves as both warn­ing and reminder of the neo-colo­nial state appa­ra­tus, then and now.