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| Contributors | |
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| Acknowledgements | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Aboriginal History in a Colonial Context | |
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| World Views | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Indigeneity in Canada: Spirituality, the Sacred, and Survival | |
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| Indigenous Pedagogy: A Way Out of Dependence Betty Bastien | |
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| Glossary | |
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| Questions for Consideration | |
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| Further Resources | |
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| Perspectives on Contact | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Imagining a Distant New World | |
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| Plan of Hochelaga Picturing Contact, Cartier, 1556 Ramusio | |
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| Jacques Cartier and His First Interview with Indians at Hochelaga, 1850 | |
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| Into the Arctic Archipelago: Edward Parry in Igloolik and the Shaman's Curse | |
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| Excerpt from an Interview with Rosie Iqallijuq Interview and translation | |
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| Questions for Consideration | |
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| Further Resources | |
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| Population Debates | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Recent Work and Prospects in American Indian Contact Population | |
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| Natural [Herbal] Medicine | |
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| Treaties and Tuberculosis: First Nations People in Late-Nineteenth-Century Western Canada, A Political and Economic Transformation | |
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| Report of Acting Superintendent M.G. Dickieson, July 1879 | |
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| Questions for Consideration | |
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| War, Conflict, and Society | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Slavery, the Fox Wars, and the Limits of Alliance | |
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| Baptisms, 21 September 1713 | |
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| The Divided Ground: Upper Canada, New York, and the Iroquois Six Nations, 1783-1815 | |
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| Speech by Red Jacket, 21 November 1790 | |
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| Questions for Consideration | |
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| The Fur Trade | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Fur-Trade History as an Aspect of Native History | |
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| Minutes from the Excise Committee of the Hudson's Bay Company, 24 March 1673 | |
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| Women, Kin, and Catholicism: New Perspectives on the Fur Trade | |
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| Reminiscences of Early Days on Mackinac Island Elizabeth Thr�s� Baird | |
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| Questions for Consideration | |
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| Locating M�tis Identity | |
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| Introduction | |
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| 'I Shall Settle, Marry, and Trade Here': British Military Personnel and Their Mixed-Blood Descendants | |
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| M�tis Nationalism: Then and Now | |
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| Only Pemmican Eaters? The International Press and M�tis Identity, 1869-85 | |
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| The Insurrection in Manitoba Brisbane Courier, 16 May 1885 | |
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| Questions for Consideration | |
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| Federal Indian Policy | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Dreaming in Liberal White: Canadian Indian Policy, 1913-83 | |
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| Civilizing Influences A proposed pamphlet by Thomas Deasy, Indian Agent, 1920 | |
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| Our Medicines: First Nations' Medical Practices and the Nanaimo Indian Hospital, 1945-75 | |
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| Excerpt from an Interview with Violet Charlie Interview by Laurie Meijer Drees, 14 May 2008 | |
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| Questions for Consideration | |
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| Survivance, Identity, and the Indian Act | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Identity, Non-Status Indians, and Federally Unrecognized Peoples | |
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| Indian Act, 1876, Sections 3(3)-3(6) | |
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| Stuck at the Border of the Reserve: Bill C-31 and the Impact on First Nations Women | |
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| Excerpt from an Interview with Life History Respondent 12 Interview by Jaime Mishibinijima, 28 July 2008 | |
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| Indian Act, 1985, Section 6 | |
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| Questions for Consideration | |
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| Residential Schools | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Always Remembering: Indian Residential Schools in Canada | |
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| Program of Studies for Indian Schools, 1897 | |
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| Reflections on the Indian Residential School Settlement Agreement: From Court Cases to Truth and Reconciliation | |
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| Excerpt from the Indian Residential Schools Setdement Agreement, May 2006 | |
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| Telling Truths and Seeking Reconciliation: Exploring the Challenges | |
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| Questions for Consideration | |
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| Religion, Culture, and the Peoples of the North | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The Birth of a Catholic Inuit Community: The Transition to Christianity in Pelly Bay, NU, 1935-50 | |
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| Excerpt from Codex Historicus, 25 December 1940 | |
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| Reflecting on the Future: New Technologies, New Frontiers | |
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| Engaging and Integrating Technologies Naomi Adelson | |
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| Questions for Consideration | |
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| The Economy and Labour | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Vanishing the Indians: Aboriginal Labourers in Twentieth-Century British Columbia | |
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| Excerpts from the Diary of Arthur Wellington Clah Introduction | |
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| Colonialism at Work: Labour Placement Programs for Aboriginal Women in Post-War Canada | |
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| Indian Girls Achieve Successful Careers-Pave Way for Others Indian News, June 1958 | |
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| Questions for Consideration | |
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| Aboriginal Women | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Categories and Terrains of Exclusion: Constructing the 'Indian Woman' in the Early Settlement Era in Western Canada | |
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| Letter from Mrs Mary McNaughton Concerning the Chattels of Indian Women Married to White Men and Living on the Reserve, dated 15 December 1879 | |
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| Making History: Elsie Marie Knott, Canada's First Female Indian Act Chief | |
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| Excerpt from the Indian Act, 1951 | |
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| Questions for Consideration | |
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| Negotiating Health and Weil-Being | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Industrial Fisheries and the Health of Local Communities in the Twentieth-Century Canadian Northwest | |
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| Letter from Chief Pierre Freezie to S.J. Bailey, 9 October 1950 | |
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| 'The Indians Would Be Better Off if They Tended to Their Farms Instead of Dabbling in Fisheries' | |
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| Maps of the Thunder Bay Mining Region of Lake Superior Geological and National History Survey of Canada | |
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| Early Pioneer Fur Trading Settlement Canadian Bank of Commerce | |
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| On the Nipigon River, Whitchers Camp at Hamilton Pool | |
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| On the Nipigon River, One Hour's Catch at Big Canoe Portage | |
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| 'This is a real Indian canoe in the picture, White water rapids from below', White Charles | |
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| On the Nipigon River, 'Guzz Brother's Camp at Pizer Portage. Trout bearing camp, July 1884' | |
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| Questions for Consideration | |
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| Political Activism | |
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| Introduction | |
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| 'Nothing Left for Me or Any Other Indian': The Georgian Bay Anishinabek and Interwar Articulations of Aboriginal Rights | |
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| Letter from Elijah Tabobondung to Jon Daly, Indian Agent, 12 August 1923, Copperhead, Perry Sound, ON | |
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| Power, Praxis, and the M�tis of Kelly Lake, Canada | |
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| Rare Health Sendees Come to M�tis at Kelly Lake | |
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| Questions for Consideration | |
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| Treaties and Self-Governance | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Ally or Colonizer?: The Federal State, the Cree Nation, and the James Bay Agreement | |
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| Excerpt from Cree Regional Authority et al. v. Attorney-General of Quebec, 1991 | |
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| Recognition by Assimilation: Mi'kmaq Treaty Rights, Fisheries Privatization, and Community Resistance in Nova Scotia | |
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| The Guides, 1899 | |
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| The Guides, 2009 | |
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| Questions for Consideration | |
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| Further Resources | |
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| Glossary | |
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| Notes | |
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| Credits | |