ISBN

0802068189; 0802059457

Statement of Responsibility

edited by J.R. Miller.

Publication Information

Toronto : University of Toronto Press

Physical Description

xix, 468 p. : ill. 24 cm.

Notes

Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

Introduction / J.R. Miller -- New France -- The Jesuits and the fur trade / Bruce G. Trigger -- French sovereignty and Native nationhood during the French regime / Cornelius J. Jaenen -- Colonial Atlantic Canada -- Amerindians between French and English in Nova Scotia, 1713-1763 / Olive Patricia Dickason -- The extermination of the Beothucks of Newfoundland / L.F.S. Upton -- Military alliance -- The Six Nations Indians in the Revolutionary War / Barbara Graymont -- The Indians in the War of 1812 / George F.G. Stanley -- Emergence of civil Indian policy -- Protection, civilization, assimilation: an outline history of Canada's Indian policy / John L. Tobias -- The early Indian Acts: developmental strategy and constitutional change / John S. Milloy -- Emerging relationship in Western Canada -- Trade, habits and economic motivation among the Indians of North America / E.E. Rich -- The impact of white women on fur trade society / Sylvia van Kirk -- Treaties and reserves -- Canada's North-West Indian policy in the 1870s: traditional premises and necessary innovations / John Leonard Taylor -- Canada's subjugation of the Plains Cree, 1879-1885 / John L. Tobias -- Northwest Rebellion -- The Northwest Rebellion of 1885 / J.R. Miller -- The Indian view of the 1885 uprising / A. Blair Stonechild -- Relations on the Pacific -- Indian control of the maritime fur trade and the Northwest Coast / Robin Fisher -- Duncan of Metlakatla: the Victorian origins of a model Indian community / Jean Usher (Friesen) -- The policy of the Bible and the plough -- Owen Glendower, Hotspur, and Canadian Indian policy / J.R. Miller -- Two acres and a cow: 'peasant' farming for the Indians of the Northwest, 1889-1897 / Stan Cuthand -- Hat in hand: the long fight to organize / Harold Cardinal -- Contemporary disputes -- Aboriginal rights, land claims, and the struggle to survive / J.R. Miller -- The future of Native rights / Donald Purich -- Native peoples and the environment -- The Indian's interpretation of Man and Nature / Diamond Jenness -- Population and human resources / World Commission on Environment and Development (The Brundtland Report) -- Lessons from Indigenous peoples / Peter Jull -- Conclusion / J.R. Miller.