Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents vii
3. Figures xi
4. The Royal Society of Canada and Colonialism: The Legacy of Duncan Campbell Scott xiii
5. The Royal Society of Canada and the Marginalization of Indigenous Knowledge 3
6. The Royal Society of Canada’s Historic Role
7. Rather of Promise than of Performance: Tracing Networks of Knowledge and Power Through the Proceedings and Transactions of the Royal Society of Canada, 1882–1922 21
8. Duncan Campbell Scott and the Royal Society of Canada: The Legitimation of Knowledge 59
9. “Perhaps the white man’s God has willed it so”: Reconsidering the “Indian” Poems of Pauline Johnson and Duncan Campbell Scott 88
10. “Sooner or later they will be given the privelage [sic] asked for”: Duncan Campbell Scott and the Dispossession of Shoal Lake 40, 1913–14 111
11. The Royal Society of Canada and Academic Writings
12. Three Fellows in Mi’kma’ki: The Power of the Avocational 131
13. “Not a little disappointment”: Forging Postcolonial Academies from Emulation and Exclusion 152
14. Nostra Culpa? Reflections on “The Indian in Canadian Historical Writing” 179
15. Rethinking Academia and Indigeneity
16. Forensic Anthropology and Archaeology as Tools for Reconciliation in Investigations into Unmarked Graves at Indian Residential Schools 203
17. Confronting “Cognitive Imperialism”: What Reconstituting a Contracts Law School Course is Teaching Me about Law 230
18. Murder They Wrote: “Unknown Knowns” and Windsor Law’s Statement Regarding R. v. Stanley 250
19. History in the Public Interest: Teaching Decolonization Through the RSC Archive 276
20. Cause and Effect: The Invisible Barriers of the Royal Society of Canada 298
21. Future Directions
22. Memorandum to the Royal Society of Canada 319
23. Golden Eagle Rising: A Conversation on Indigenous Knowledge 326
24. Closing Circle Words 335
25. Contributors 345
26. Index 353