"Particulars by mail incidents by wire": Postal Networks and the 1885 Northwest Resistance.

The article focuses on how Canada's postal and telecommunication networks functioned as crucial tools of settler-colonial power during the 1885 Northwest Resistance. Topics include the role of the Post Office Department in military coordination and financing, the strategic use and targeting of mail and telegraph lines by both the Dominion government and Indigenous resistance, and the broader connection between communications infrastructure, and nation-building.