A Fatherly Eye : : Indian Agents, Government Power, and Aboriginal Resistance in Ontario, 1918-1939 / / Robin Brownlie.
For more than a century, government policy towards Aboriginal peoples in Canada was shaped by paternalistic attitudes and an ultimate goal of assimilation. Indeed, remnants of that thinking still linger today, more than thirty years after protests against the White Paper of 1969 led to reconsiderati...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2017] ©2003 |
| Year of Publication: | 2017 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Canadian Social History Series
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1. Homeland: The Area and the People
- 2. 'A Particularly Authoritarian Organization': The Administrative Context
- 3. 'It Did Not Matter Who Was Chief': Band Councils
- 4. 'Easy to Trick People by Putting Words on Paper': Treaties and Aboriginal Rights
- 5. 'Economy Must Be Observed': Assistance Measures
- 6. 'Always and Only an Indian': Assimilation in Practice
- Conclusion
- Appendix: Treaties
- Notes
- Index