As Long as the Sun Shines and Water Flows: A Reader in Canadian Native Studies

Abstract

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 Notes on Contributors