Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents vii
3. Maps ix
4. Introduction xi
5. Arthur J. Ray and the Writing of Aboriginal History 1
6. Rupert’s Land, Nituskeenan, Our Land: Cree and English Naming and Claiming around the Dirty Sea 18
7. Echo of the Crane: Tracing Anishnawbek and Métis Title to Bawating (Sault Ste. Marie) 41
8. Compact, Contract, Covenant: The Evolution of Indian Treaty-Making 66
9. Smallpox along the Frontier of the Plains Borderlands at the Turn of the Twentieth Century 92
10. Mapping the New El Dorado: The Fraser River Gold Rush and the Appropriation of Native Space 119
11. Innovation, Tradition, Colonialism, and Aboriginal Fishing Conflicts in the Lower Fraser Canyon 145
12. Meanings of Mobility on the Northwest Coast 175
13. “Choose Your Flag”: Perspectives on the Tsimshian Migration from Metlakatla, British Columbia, to New Metlakatla, Alaska, 1887 196
14. Gitxsan Law and Settler Disorder: The Skeena “Uprising” of 1888 220
15. Arthur J. Ray and the Empirical Opportunity 249
16. Contributors 265
17. Index 269