A Declaration of the First Nations

Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents v
3. Foreword vii
4. Preface ix
5. Abbreviations xxii
6. As Long as the Sun Shines and Water Flows: An Historical Comment 1
7. The Evolution of Indian Administration Since the Royal Proclamation of 1763
8. The Royal Proclamation/Proclamation Royale October 7/7 Octobre 1763 29
9. Protection, Civilization, Assimilation: An Outline History of Canada's Indian Policy 39
10. The Early Indian Acts: Developmental Strategy and Constitutional Change 56
11. Indian Land Cessions in Upper Canada, 1815-1830 65
12. Herman Merivale and Colonial Office Indian Policy in the Mid-Nineteenth Century 85
13. A Victorian Civil Servant at Work: Lawrence Vankoughnet and the Canadian Indian Department, 1874-1893 104
14. Clifford Sifton and Canadian Indian Administration 1896-1905 120
15. The Administration of Treaty 3: The Location of the Boundaries of Treaty 3 Indian Reserves in Ontario, 1873-1915 145
16. Canada’s Indians Yesterday. What of Today? 158
17. The Politics of Indian Affairs 164
18. Native Responses to Changing Relations and Circumstances
19. Alcoholism, Indians, and the Anti-Drink Cause in the Protestant Indian Missions of Upper Canada, 1822-1850 191
20. The Tragedy of the Loss of the Commons in Western Canada 203
21. A Witness to Murder: The Cypress Hills Massacre and the Conflict of Attitudes towards the Native People of the Canadian and American West during the 1870’s 229
22. Louis Kiel and Aboriginal Rights¹ 247
23. A Parting of the Ways: Louis Schmidt’s Account of Louis Kiel and the Metis Rebellion 263
24. La Conquete du Nord-Ouest, 1885-1985, or the Imperial Quest of British North America* 280
25. Native People and the Justice System 288
26. Becoming Modern: Some Reflections on Inuit Social Change 299
27. The Inuit and the Constitutional Process: 1978-1981 315
28. A Declaration of the First Nations 337
29. The Indian in Canadian Historical Writing, 1972-1982 340
30. Suggestions for Further Reading 358
31. Notes on Contributors 362