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Rodeo: Cruelty for a Buck

  • PETA
  • n.d.
  • Violence Against Animals
  • https://www.peta.org/issues/animals-in-entertainment/animals-used-entertainment-factsheets/rodeo-cruelty-buck/

Exposed: Why the Calgary Stampede Needs to Shut Down

  • One Green Planet
  • "2 years ago"
  • Violence Against Animals
  • https://www.onegreenplanet.org/animalsandnature/exposed-why-the-calgary-stampede-needs-to-shut-down/

Calgary Stampede 2023 attendance shy of breaking record

  • CityNews
  • 2023-07-27
  • Violence Against Animals
  • https://calgary.citynews.ca/2023/07/17/calgary-stampede-attendance-record/

Calls for end to chuckwagon races renewed after horse dies at Stampede

  • Daily Hive
  • 2023-07-17
  • Violence Against Animals
  • https://dailyhive.com/calgary/end-chuckwagon-races-stampede-horse-death

Horse euthanized after injury at Calgary Stampede chuckwagon race

  • Calgary Herald
  • 2023-07-15
  • Violence Against Animals
  • https://calgaryherald.com/news/local-news/horse-euthanized-after-injury-at-calgary-stampede-chuckwagon-race

Horse euthanized following chuckwagon race at Calgary Stampede

  • CTV News
  • 2023-07-15
  • Violence Against Animals
  • https://calgary.ctvnews.ca/horse-euthanized-following-chuckwagon-race-at-calgary-stampede-1.6481180

Opinion: 100 years of cruelty at the Calgary Stampede is nothing to celebrate

  • Daily Hive
  • 2023-07-10
  • Violence Against Animals
  • https://dailyhive.com/calgary/opinion-cruelty-calgary-stampede

Protesters gather outside Stampede to protest animal cruelty

  • CTV News
  • 2023-07-09
  • Violence Against Animals
  • https://calgary.ctvnews.ca/protesters-gather-outside-stampede-to-protest-animal-cruelty-1.6472793

How do bucking bulls experience Stampede? UCalgary study aims to find out

  • CityNews
  • 2023-07-06
  • Violence Against Animals
  • https://calgary.citynews.ca/2023/07/06/ucalgary-study-bucking-bulls-stampede/

Calls to end Calgary Stampede chuckwagon races after horse death

  • Daily Hive
  • 2022-07-15
  • Violence Against Animals
  • https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/horse-euthanized-calgary-stampede

How do bucking bulls really feel about rodeos?

  • University of Calgary, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine News
  • 2022-07-15
  • Violence Against Animals
  • https://ucalgary.ca/news/how-do-bucking-bulls-really-feel-about-rodeos

The days of rodeo events at the Calgary Stampede should be numbered

  • The Globe and Mail
  • 2022-06-28
  • Violence Against Animals
  • https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-calgary-stampede-rodeo-animal-welfare/

Animal rights group asks Calgary Stampede parade marshal Kevin Costner to step aside

  • CTV News
  • 2022-06-02
  • Violence Against Animals
  • https://calgary.ctvnews.ca/animal-rights-group-asks-calgary-stampede-parade-marshal-kevin-costner-to-step-aside-1.5929746

Kevin Costner Urged to Condemn Calgary Stampede Carnage After PETA Push

  • PETA
  • 2022-06-02
  • Violence Against Animals
  • https://www.peta.org/media/news-releases/kevin-costner-urged-to-condemn-calgary-stampede-carnage-after-peta-push/

Opinion: The Calgary Stampede should drop inhumane rodeo events

  • Daily Hive
  • 2021-07-07
  • Violence Against Animals
  • https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/calgary-stampede-inhumane-rodeo-events-opinion

Study explores how horses feel about participating in rodeo events

  • Daily Hive
  • 2021-02-24
  • Violence Against Animals
  • https://dailyhive.com/calgary/bucking-horses-rodeo-events-study

How do horses feel about being in rodeos? New University of Calgary study looks at animal welfare

  • Global News
  • 2021-02-23
  • Violence Against Animals
  • https://globalnews.ca/news/7656690/university-of-calgary-stampede-animal-welfare-study/

UCalgary researchers publish first study on welfare of bucking horses at Calgary Stampede

  • University of Calgary, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine News
  • 2021-02-17
  • Violence Against Animals
  • https://vet.ucalgary.ca/news/ucalgary-researchers-publish-first-study-welfare-bucking-horses-calgary-stampede

Rodeo is a theatre of violence and danger — and it’s not going anywhere

  • The Conversation
  • 2019-07-30
  • Violence Against Animals
  • https://theconversation.com/rodeo-is-a-theatre-of-violence-and-danger-and-its-not-going-anywhere-121156

Keep the show bands but chuck the chuckwagons to end harm to animals at the Calgary Stampede

  • Canadian Lawyer Mag
  • 2019-07-22
  • Violence Against Animals
  • https://www.canadianlawyermag.com/news/opinion/keep-the-show-bands-but-chuck-the-chuckwagons-to-end-harm-to-animals-at-the-calgary-stampede/277270

Nelson: Calgary Stampede faces its greatest fight over chucks, rodeo

  • Calgary Herald
  • 2019-07-18
  • Violence Against Animals
  • https://calgaryherald.com/opinion/columnists/nelson-calgary-stampede-faces-its-greatest-fight-over-chucks-rodeo

Calgary Stampede’s chuckwagon races claim lives of six horses

  • Radio Canada International
  • 2019-07-16
  • Violence Against Animals
  • https://www.rcinet.ca/en/2019/07/16/calgary-stampedes-chuckwagon-races-claim-lives-of-six-horses/

PETA activists protest at Alberta legislature over Calgary Stampede horse deaths

  • Edmonton Journal
  • 2019-07-16
  • Violence Against Animals
  • https://edmontonjournal.com/news/local-news/peta-activists-protest-at-alberta-legislature-over-calgary-stampede-horse-deaths

PETA activists protest at legislature following Stampede horse deaths

  • CBC
  • 2019-07-16
  • Violence Against Animals
  • https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/edmonton-peta-calgary-stampede-horse-deaths-1.5213265

Yet another annual message to the Calgary Stampede: don’t hurt animals for entertainment

  • Rabble
  • 2019-07-16
  • Violence Against Animals
  • https://rabble.ca/politics/canadian-politics/yet-another-annual-message-calgary-stampede-real-men-dont-hurt/
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Settler Colonial Place-making in Alberta: Sexualized Violence, Extractivism, and Cowboy Culture is a research project funded by an Insight Development Grant awarded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (2018-2024).

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One of the ways that settler colonialism might ally itself with innocence is by impelling settlers (ourselves included) to offer land acknowledgements. The logic, of course, is that if settlers acknowledge Indigenous land and sovereignty, then we must be ‘on their team,’ and if we are on their team, then we must not be so bad: we must, in other words, be innocent. Read more