Foreword / Chief John Snow

Preface

1 The Legacy of the Past: An Overview / Jean Barman, Yvonne Hebert, Don McCaskill

2 Micmac Literacy and Cognitive Assimilation / Marie Battiste

3 Education for Francization: The Case of New France in the Seventeenth Century / Cornelius J. Jaenen

4 “No Blanket to be Worn in School”: The Education of Indians in Nineteenth-Century Ontario / J. Donald Wilson

5 Creating Little Dominions within the Dominion: Early Catholic Indian Schools in Saskatchewan and British Columbia / Jacqueline Gresko

6 Separate and Unequal: Indian and White Girls at All Hallows School, 1884-1920 / Jean Barman

7 A Very Imperfect Means of Education: Indian Day Schools in the Yukon Territory, 1890-1955 / Ken Coates

8 The Changing Experience of Indian Residential Schooling: Blue Quills, 1931-1970 / Diane Persson

Notes on Contributors

Index