Foreword

Preface

Map

Introductory Essay

Section I: The Evolution of Indian Administration Since the Royal Proclamation of 1763

1 Protection, Civilization, Assimilation: An Outline History of Canada’s Indian Policy

2 The Early Indian Acts: Developmental Strategy and Constitutional Change

3 Indian Land Cessions in Upper Canada, 1815-1830

4 Herman Merivale and Colonial Office Indian Policy in the Mid-Nineteenth Century

5 A Victorian Civil Servant at Work: Lawrence Vankoughnet and the Canadian Indian Department, 1874-1893

6 Clifford Sifton and Canadian Indian Administration 1896-1905

7 The Administration of Treaty 3: The Location of the Boundaries of Treaty 3 Indian Reserves in Ontario, 1873-1915

8 Canada’s Indians Yesterday – What of Today?

9 The Politics of Indian Affairs

Section II: Native Responses to Changing Relations and Circumstances

1 Alcoholism, Indians and the Anti-Drink Cause in the Protestant Indian Missions of Upper Canada, 1822-1850

2 The Tragedy of the Loss of the Commons in Western Canada

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 1870s

4 Louis Riel and Aboriginal Rights

5 A Parting of the Ways: Louis Schmidt’s Account of Louis Riel and the Metis Rebellion

6 La Conquete du Nord-Ouest, 1885-1985, or the Imperial Quest of British North America

7 Native People and the Justice System

8 Becoming Modern – Some Reflections on Inuit Social Change

9 The Inuit and the Constitutional Process: 1978-81

A Declaration of the First Nations, 18 November, 1981

1983 Constitutional Accord on Aboriginal Rights

Bibliographic Essay

The Indian in Canadian Historical Writing, 1971-1981

Suggestions for Further Reading