This collection of papers focuses on Canadian Native history since 1763 and presents an overview of official Canadian Indian policy and its effects on the Indian, Inuit, and Metis. Issues and themes covered include colonial Indian policy, constitutional developments, Indian treaties and policy, government decision-making and Native responses reflecting both persistence and change, and the broad issue of aboriginal and treaty rights.
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- Includes bibliographies
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- 323.1/197/071
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- 19
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- Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
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- 0774801816 9780774853965
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- E92
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- A8 1983eb
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- 1 electronic text (xxi, 362 p.)
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- Canada
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- (CaBNVSL)jme00326692 (OCoLC)243568943 (CaOOCEL)404034
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Table of Contents
- CONTENTS 6
- FOREWORD 8
- PREFACE 10
- MAP: Native Groups and Treaty Boundaries in Western Canada 22
- INTRODUCTORY ESSAY: As Long as the Sun Shines and Water Flows: An Historical Comment 24
- SECTION I: THE EVOLUTION OF INDIAN ADMINISTRATION SINCE THE ROYAL PROCLAMATION OF 1763 50
- The Royal Proclamation of 7 October, 1763 52
- 1. Protection, Civilization, Assimilation: An Outline History of Canada's Indian Policy 62
- 2. The Early Indian Acts: Developmental Strategy and Constitutional Change 79
- 3. Indian Land Cessions in Upper Canada, 1815–1830 88
- 4. Herman Merivale and Colonial Office Indian Policy in the Mid-Nineteenth Century 108
- 5. A Victorian Civil Servant at Work: Lawrence Vankoughnet and the Canadian Indian Department, 1874–1893 127
- 6. Clifford Sifton and Canadian Indian Administration 1896–1905 143
- 7. The Administration of Treaty 3: The Location of the Boundaries of Treaty 3 Indian Reserves in Ontario, 1873–1915 168
- 8. Canada's Indians Yesterday. What of Today? 181
- 9. The Politics of Indian Affairs 187
- SECTION II: NATIVE RESPONSES TO CHANGING RELATIONS AND CIRCUMSTANCES 212
- 1. Alcoholism, Indians and the Anti-Drink Cause in the Protestant Indian Missions of Upper Canada, 1822–1850 214
- 2. The Tragedy of the Loss of the Commons in Western Canada 226
- 3. A Witness to Murder: The Cypress Hills Massacre and the Conflict of Attitudes towards the Native People of the Canadian-American West during the 1870's 252
- 4. Louis Riel and Aboriginal Rights 270
- 5. A Parting of the Ways: Louis Schmidt's Account of Louis Riel and the Metis Rebellion 286
- 6. La Conquête du Nord-Ouest, 1885–1985, or the Imperial Quest of British North America 303
- 7. Native People and the Justice System 311
- 8. Becoming Modern — Some Reflections on Inuit Social Change 322
- 9. The Inuit and the Constitutional Process: 1978–81 338
- A Declaration of the First Nations, 18 November, 1981 360
- BIBLIOGRAPHIC ESSAY: The Indian in Canadian Historical Writing, 1971–1981 363
- SUGGESTIONS FOR FURTHER READING 381
- NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS 385
