Thomas Flanagan
Thomas Eugene Flanagan is a writer and American professor of Political sciences to the Université of Calgary in Alberta (Canada). Only son of an Irish family américano- of Illinois, it obtains his license with the Université Notre Dame and a Doctorat with Duke, (North Carolina), after which it accepts a station in Calgary.
Flanagan is one of the members of the school of Calgary, and was done noticed for its work discussed on Louis Riel and the Amerindian S. Flanagan adopts in its work an approach revisionist with the History of the Amerindians. Regarding those as the " first immigrants" American, he works with démythifier what he calls a " orthodoxy aborigène" politically correct. He worked as consultant and expert in the dispute of the Indian territorial rights: its approach of the Amerindians as first immigrants is seen by certain like particularly useful for the Canadian government in order to refusing new territorial rights to the Indian tribes.
Flanagan worked for Preston Manning at the beginnings of the Parti reformist Canada, but left the movement after the general election of 1993. It is currently close to the Prime Minister of Canada Stephen Harper, leader of the preserving . Flanagan is member of a Think preserving tank, the Institut Fraser.