Cover
Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Rule of Three
Empire of “Common Sense”
Imagine Canada
From Rupert's Land to the Twenty-first Century
Chapter One - This Land is Mine: The Rupert’s Land Purchase, 1869
“The Garden of the World”
“Hopeless Stagnation”
“He Surprised and Destroyed Two Villages”
“Beyond All Praise”
“As Degraded a Set of Savages as Can Be Imagined”
“They are Consummate Beggars”
Chapter Two - Fifty-Six Words: Treaty 3, 1873
“A Man Cannot be Both a Hunter and a Farmer”
“First, the Indians Must Have Presents”
“Let us Bless God That He Has Brought a Vine Into This Wilderness”
Chapter Three - “Our Little War”: The North-West Rebellion, 1885
“Second Conquest”
“Riel Must Pay”
“We'll Hang Louis Riel”
“It Is the Absolute Truth”
“Canadians Will Never Treat the Indians as Our Neighbours Have Done”
“Brotherly Consideration For the Weak”
“Blessings of Our Christian Civilization”
“I Shall Be King or Die”
Chapter Four - The Golden Rule: The Klondike Gold Rush, 1898–1905
“An Inordinate Amount of Superstition”
“Heap Old Man! The Young Squaw! Both Crazy”
“Dying Off Like a Flock of Sheep With the Rot”
Chapter Five - Poet, Princess, Possession: Remembering Pauline Johnson, 1913
“Distinguishing Characteristics of the Proud and Capable Tribe ”
“In the Hands of the Women's Canadian Club”
“She Was a Princess”
Chapter Six - Disrobing Grey Owl: The Death of Archie Belaney, 1938
“Our Beloved Grey Owl”
“A Real Flesh and Blood Indian”
“A Bit Thick”
“I Don't Care Whether He Was an Englishman, Irishman, Scotsman or Negro”
Chapter Seven - “Potential Indian Citizens?”: Aboriginal People after World War II, 1948
“Indian Veterans Capable Farmers”
“Don't Needum”
“Again Into the Bush”
“A Few Minutes Later She Was Calmly Smoking a Cigarette”
“The Indian List”
“Indian Chief is Charged With Murder”
Chapter Eight - Cardboard Characters: The White Paper, 1969
“Down the Garden Path”
“Warpath Angers”
“I Have No Desire to be a Great White Father”
“Salvation of His Race”
“Aggressive New Attitude”
Chapter Nine - Bended Elbow News: The Anicinabe Park Standoff, 1974
“Address the Rot”
“Step into Reality From Your Dream World”
“It's Hard to Show Empathy and Love”
Chapter Ten - Indian Princess / Indian “Squaw”: Bill C-31, 1985
Legendary Indian Princess
“Memories of a Noble Past”
“Keep the Indians Out of Town”
“She Has Been a Church-Going Christian Since She was Nineteen”
“I Don't Know Why They Don't Marry Their Own Kind”
“They Knew"
"New Definition of Indian"
Chapter Eleven - Letters From the Edges: The Oka Crisis, 1990
“Please Write”
“We Do Not Need People Who Burn Our Flag and Use It as Toilet Paper”
Chapter Twelve - Back to the Future: A Prairie Centennial, 1905–2005
“Passing of the Red Man”
“Dirty and Thoroughly Degenerate”
“Everything That This Country Stands For”
“A Gift From the Twentieth Century”
“I Like the Costumes"
Conclusion - Return of the Native
“My Own Fantasy”
Introduction
Chapter One - This Land is Mine
Chapter Two - Fifty-Six Words
Chapter Three - “Our Little War”
Chapter Four - The Golden Rule
Chapter Five - Poet, Princess, Possession
Chapter Six - Disrobing Grey Owl
Chapter Seven - “Potential Indian Citizens?”
Chapter Eight - Cardboard Characters
Chapter Nine - Bended Elbow News
Chapter Ten - Indian Princess / Indian “Squaw”
Chapter Eleven - Letters From the Edges
Chapter Twelve - Back to the Future
Conclusion - Return of the Native
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Secondary Sources
Index