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Book SynopsisExamines the joint efforts of Aboriginal people and individuals of European ancestry to counter injustice in Canada when colonization was at its height, from the mid-nineteenth to the early twentieth century.
Trade ReviewHaig-Brown, Nock and the contributing authors are to be congratulated for presenting a work that is well-researched and competently argued. -- Derek Whitehouse-Strong, History Department, Grant MacEwan College * H-Net Book Review, July 2006 *
Table of ContentsIllustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction / David A. Nock and Celia Haig-Brown
1 Horatio Hale: Forgotten Victorian Author of Positive Aboriginal Representation / David A. Nock
2 Trust Us: A Case Study in Colonial Social Relations Based on Documents Prepared by the Aborigines Protection Society, 1836-1912 / Michael D. Blackstock
3 A Mi’kmaq Missionary among the Mohawks: Silas T. Rand and His Attitudes toward Race and “Progress” / Thomas S. Abler
4 A Visionary on the Edge: Allan Macdonell and the Championing of Native Resource Rights / Alan Knight and Janet E. Chute
5 Taking up the Torch: Simon J. Dawson and the Upper Great Lakes’ Native Resource Campaign of the 1860s and 1870s / Janet E. Chute and Alan Knight
6 The “Friends” of Nahnebahwequa / Celia Haig-Brown
7 Aboriginals and Their Influence on E.F. Wilson’s Paradigm Revolution / David A. Nock
8 Good Intentions Gone Awry: From Protection to Confinement in Emma Crosby’s Home for Aboriginal Girls / Jan Hare and Jean Barman
9 The “Cordial Advocate”: Amelia McLean Paget and The People of the Plains / Sarah A. Carter
10 Honoré Joseph Jaxon: A Lifelong Friend of Aboriginal Canada / Donald D. Smith
11 Arthur Eugene O’Meara: Servant, Advocate, Seeker of Justice / Mary Haig-Brown
12 “They Wanted … Me to Help Them”: James A. Teit and the Challenge of Ethnography in the Boasian Era / Wendy Wickwire
Appendix: The Fair Play Papers – The Future of Our Indians
Selected Bibliography
Contributors
Index
