ISBN

0802081533

Statement of Responsibility

J.R. Miller.

Edition

3rd ed.

Publication Information

Toronto : University of Toronto Press

Physical Description

xv, 481 p. : ill. maps, ports. 23 cm.

Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction -- 1 Indians and Europeans at the Time of Contact -- Part One: Cooperation -- 2 Early Contacts in the Eastern Woodlands -- 3 Commercial Partnership and Mutual Benefit -- 4 Military Allies through a Century of Warfare -- Part Two: Coercion -- 5 From Alliance to 'Irrelevance' -- 6 Reserves, Residential Schools, and the Threat of Assimilation -- 7 Commercial Frontier on the Western Plains -- 8 Contact, Commerce, and Christianity on the Pacific -- 9 Resistance in Red River and the Numbered Treaties -- 10 North-West Rebellion -- 11 Policy of the Bible and the Plough -- 12 Residents and Transients in the North -- Part Three: Confrontation -- 13 Beginnings of Political Organization -- 14 Land Claims and Self-Government from the White Paper to Guerin -- 15 Meech, Oka, Charlottetown, Nass, and Ottawa -- 16 Do We Learn Anything from History?