As long as the sun shines and water flows : a reader in Canadian native studies / edited by Ian A.L. Getty and Antoine S. Lussier.

A series of research papers on the history of native peoples (Indian, Inuit, Metis) in Canada, presented at a Native Studies colloquium at Brandon University, Manitoba in 1981. Includes a bibliographic essay on the Indian in Canadian historical writing.

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Other Authors: Getty, Ian A. L., 1947-, Lussier, Antoine S.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Vancouver : University of British Columbia Press, ©1983.
Series:Nakoda Institute occasional paper ; no. 1.
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Table of Contents:
  • ""CONTENTS""; ""FOREWORD""; ""PREFACE""; ""MAP: Native Groups and Treaty Boundaries in Western Canada""; ""INTRODUCTORY ESSAY: As Long as the Sun Shines and Water Flows: An Historical Comment""; ""SECTION I: THE EVOLUTION OF INDIAN ADMINISTRATION SINCE THE ROYAL PROCLAMATION OF 1763""; ""The Royal Proclamation of 7 October, 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, 1815â€?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, 1874â€?1893""; ""6. Clifford Sifton and Canadian Indian Administration 1896â€?1905""; ""7. The Administration of Treaty 3: The Location of the Boundaries of Treaty 3 Indian Reserves in Ontario, 1873â€?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, 1822â€?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 1870's""; ""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 Conquête du Nord-Ouest, 1885â€?1985, or the Imperial Quest of British North America""
  • ""7. Native People and the Justice System""""8. Becoming Modern â€? Some Reflections on Inuit Social Change""; ""9. The Inuit and the Constitutional Process: 1978â€?81""; ""A Declaration of the First Nations, 18 November, 1981""; ""BIBLIOGRAPHIC ESSAY: The Indian in Canadian Historical Writing, 1971â€?1981""; ""SUGGESTIONS FOR FURTHER READING""; ""NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS""