ISBN

0802068693

Statement of Responsibility

J.R. Miller.

Edition

Rev. ed.

Publication Information

Toronto : University of Toronto Press

Physical Description

xi, 351 p., [25] p. of plates : ill., maps, ports. 23 cm.

Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. [329]-338) 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 The commercial frontier on the western plains -- 8 Contact, commerce, and Christianity on the Pacific -- 9 Resistence in Red River and the numbered treaties -- 10 The Northwest Rebellion of 1885 -- 11 The policy of the Bible and the plough -- Part Three: Confrontation -- 12 The beginnings of political organization -- 13 Political relations after the white paper -- 14 Aboriginal rights, land claims, and the struggle to survive -- 15 Do we learn anything from history? -- Epilogue -- 16 Indian summer: From Meech Lake to Oka.