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- ↑ Dorchester Review Barbara Kay Uprising
- ↑ David Martin Thomas, David N. Biette Canada and the United States: Differences that Count, 2014 1442609087 p381 "Both nations should take heed, lest the protests erupt into a widespread uprising as projected in Douglas Bland's creative and alarming novel Uprising."
- ↑ Book Review – Time Bomb: Canada and the First Nations, by Douglas Bland
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