ISBN

0889202974

Statement of Responsibility

David T. McNab editor for Nin.Da.Waab.Jig.

Publication Information

Waterloo Ont. : Wilfrid Laurier University Press

Physical Description

vi, 342 p. 23 cm.

Notes

Proceedings of a conference held May 12-14, 1994, in Bkejwanong, Ont.

Contents

Introduction / David T. McNab -- Bkejwanong, "the place where the waters divide" : a perspective on earth, water, air and fire / Dean M. Jacobs -- Art and Amerindian worldviews / Olive Patricia Dickason -- "Water is her life blood" : the waters of Bkejwanong and the treaty-making process / David T. McNab -- "Under the earth" : the expropriation and attempted sale of the oil and gas rights of the Walpole Island First Nation during World War I / Rhonda Telford -- The Reverend Simpson Bingham (1875-1926) : the worlds of Henry Ford and Simpson Brigham collide / Jim Miller -- Mi'kmaq fishing in the Maritimes : a historical overview / Janet E. Chute -- "We cannot work without food" : Nova Scotia Indian policy and Mi'kmaq agriculture, 1783-1867 / Theresa Redmond -- Glooscap encounters Silas T. Rand : a Baptist missionary on the folkloric fringe / Thomas S. Abler -- Colonizing a people : Mennonite settlement in Waterlook Township / E. Reginald Good -- The Six Nations Confederacy, aboriginal sovereignty and Ontario aboriginal law : 1790-1860 / Sidney L. Harring -- The uses and abuses of power in two Ontario residential schools : the Mohawk Institute and Mount Elgin / Elizabeth Graham -- The Crown domain and the self-governing presence in northern Ontario / Bruce W. Hodgins -- Some comments upon the marked differences in the representations of Chipewyan women in Samuel Hearne's field notes and his published journal / Heather Rollason -- Is this apartheid? Aboriginal reserves and self-government in Canada, 1960-82 / Joan G. Fairweather -- The Sechelt and Nunavut agreements : evolutionary and revolutionary approaches to self-government / Cameron Croxall and Laird Christie -- A meeting ground of earth, water, air and fire / David T. McNab.