Strange Visitors - Documents in Indigenous-Settler Relations in Canada From 1876

Covering topics such as the Indian Act, the High Arctic relocation of 1953, and the conflict at Ipperwash, Keith D. Smith draws on a diverse selection of documents including letters, testimonies, speeches, transcripts, newspaper articles, and government records. In his thoughtful introduction, Smith provides guidance on the unique challenges of dealing with Indigenous primary sources by highlighting the critical skill of "reading against the grain."
Each chapter includes an introduction and a list of discussion questions, and helpful background information is provided for each of the readings. Organized thematically into fifteen chapters, the reader also contains a list of key figures, along with maps and images.

Sommario

Acknowledgements

Introduction



Chapter 1

"In a State of Tutelage": The Indian Act of 1876

1.1 House of Commons Debates on the Proposed Indian Act, 1876

1.2 The Indian Act of 1876

1.3 Letter from George Buck and 32 Other Six Nations Chiefs, 1876



Chapter 2

"No More Fighting Between Anyone": The Numbered Treaties

2.1 Area of Treaty 7 and the Traditional Territory of the Blackfoot Confederacy

2.2 Boundaries of the Numbered Treaties

2.3 Treaty 7, 1877

2.4 Report of Lieutenant Governor and Special Indian Commissioner David Laird, 1877

2.5 Letter from Father Constantine Scollen, 1879

2.6 Interview with Cecile Many Guns (Grassy Water), 1973

2.7 Interview with Mrs. Annie Buffalo (Sitting Up High), 1975



Chapter 3

"Then Go, and Strike for Liberty and Life":

The 1885 Resistance in the North-West

3.1 Riel's Case, 1885

3.2 Report of Superintendent of Indian Affairs John A. Macdonald, 1885

3.3 Report of North-West Mounted Police Assistant Commissioner L.N.F. Crozier, 1885

3.4 The Account of Gabriel Dumont, 1888 (1949)

3.5 The Recommendations of Assistant Indian Commissioner Hayter Reed, 1885

3.6 Address Presented to Chief Crowfoot from the Council of the Corporation of the City of Ottawa, 1886

3.7 The Poetic Interpretation of Pauline Johnson, 1885



Chapter 4

"For the General Good": Restricting Movement and Cultural Practice

Section 4a: The Pass System

4a.1 Letter from Robert Sinclair to Edgar Dewdney, 1892

4a.2 Letter from Hayter Reed to Edgar Dewdney, 1885

4a.3 Letter from A.E. Forget to Blackfoot Indian Agent, 1889

4a.4 Extract from NWMP Superintendent Steele's Monthly Report, June 1890 4a.5 "The Mounted Police and the Sarcees," Calgary Herald, June 8, 1892

4a.6 Letter from Fred White to L. Vankoughnet, 1893

4a.7 Letter from Hayter Reed to the Deputy Superintendent

General of Indian Affairs, 1893

4a.8 Chief Dan Kennedy, Recollections of an Assiniboine Chief, 1972

Section 4b: Restricting the Potlatch

4b.1 Legislation Restricting Indigenous Ceremonies, 1884-1933

4b.1a Indian Act Amendment, 1884

4b.1b Indian Act Amendment, 1895

4b.1c Indian Act Amendment, 1914

4b.1d Indian Act Amendment, 1933

4b.2 Thomas Crosby, Among the An-Ko-me-nums, 1907

4b.3 W.M. Halliday, Potlatch and Totem, 1935

4b.4 "A Plea for Potlatches," 1896

4b.5 Assu of Cape Mudge, 1989



Chapter 5

"Our object is to continue until there is not a single

Indian in Canada that has not been absorbed into the body politic": Assimilation and Organized Resistance

Section 5a: Assimilation

5a.1 Duncan Campbell Scott, "Onondaga Madonna," 1898

5a.2 Duncan Campbell Scott, "The Half-Breed Girl," 1906

5a.3 Evidence of D.C. Scott on the Indian Act Amendments of 1920

5a.4 Memorandum of the Six Nations of Brantford and Other

Haudenosaunee First Nations on the Indian Act

Amendments of 1920

5a.5 Amendment to the Indian Act, 1920

Section 5b: Organized Resistance

5b.1 Letter from F.O. Loft to Chiefs and Brethren, 1919

5b.2 Letter from J.P. Wright to D.C. Scott, 1919

5b.3 Letter from D.C. Scott to J.P. Wright, 1919

5b.4 Statement of the Allied Indian Tribes of British Columbia, 1919

5b.5 Deskaheh, The Redman's Appeal for Justice, 1923

5b.6 Special Joint Committee of the Senate and House of Commons Appointed to Inquire into the Claims of the Allied Indian Tribes of British Columbia, 1926

5b.7 Amendment to the Indian Act, 1927



Chapter 6

"Please don't blame yourselves": Residential Schools

6.1 N.F. Davin, Report on Industrial Schools, 1879

6.2 House of Commons Debates, 1920

6.3 P.H. Bryce, The Story of a National Crime, 1920

6.4 Mary Carpenter, "No More Denials Please," 1991

6.5 Isabelle Knockwood, Out of the Depths, 2001

6.6 Thomas Moore, Before and After Photographs, 1896



Chapter 7

"We Do Not Ask for Special Favours from Anyone":

Indigenous People and Global Conflict

Section 7a: World War I

7a.1 Report of the Privy Council 393, 1918

7a.2 Amendments to the Indian Act , 1906 and 1918

7a.2a Indian Act Amendment, 1906

7a.2b Indian Act Amendment, 1918

7a.3 Letter from Kainai Chief Shot-on-Both-Sides and Others, 1922

7a.4 D.C. Scott, "The Canadian Indians in the Great War," 1919

7a.5 Annual Report of the Department of Indian Affairs , 1919

Section 7b: World War II

7b.1 Testimony of Gordon Ahenakew, Saskatchewan

Indian Veterans Association, 1992

7b.2 Testimony of Norman Quinney, Indian Veterans Association, 1992

7b.3 Testimony of Ray Prince, Northern Region of National

Aboriginal Veterans Association, BC Chapter, 1992

7b.4 Testimony of Harry Lavallee, National Aboriginal Veterans Association, 1993

7b.5 The Aboriginal Soldier after the Wars, 1995



Chapter 8

A "Complete and Final Solution":

Preparing for the New Indian Act of 1951

8.1 Evidence of Diamond Jenness, 1947

8.2 Testimony of Andy Paull, President of the North American Indian Brotherhood, 1946

8.3 Submission of the Union of Saskatchewan Indians, 1947

8.4 Presentation of Mathew Lazare for the Mohawk of Caughnawaga, 1947

8.5 House of Commons, "A Summary of the Proceedings of a Conference with Representative Indians," 1951



Chapter 9

"We Had No Hesitation in Using the Word 'Experiment'":

The High Arctic Relocation of 1953

9.1 The High Arctic Relocation, 1953

9.2 Testimony of Markoosie Patsauq and Samwillie Elijassialuk, 1992

9.3 Examination of Bent Sivertz, 1993

9.4 Memorandum from the Privy Council Office, 1952

9.5 The Hickling Report, 1990

9.6 Report of the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples, 1994



Chapter 10

"A Faulty Understanding of Fairness":

The White Paper of 1969

10.1 Statement of the Government of Canada on Indian Policy (White Paper), 1969

10.2 Indian Association of Alberta, Citizens Plus (Red Paper) , 1970

10.3 William Wuttunee, Ruffled Feathers, 1971

10.4 National Indian Brotherhood, "Statement on the Proposed New 'Indian Policy,'" 1969



Chapter 11

"An Epic Struggle Which Has Left its Mark":

Striving for Gender Equality in the Indian Act

11.1 Amendment to the Indian Act, 1951

11.2 Amendment to the Indian Act, 1985

11.3 Cathy Baily, "Indian Women Struggle for Rights," Poundmaker, 1974

11.4 Report of the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples, 1985

11.5 McIvor v. The Registrar, Indian and Northern Affairs Canada, 2007

11.6 Letter from Sharon McIvor to Members of Parliament, 2010



Chapter 12

"Its Intentions Remain Hostile":

The 1982 Constitution and Charter of Rights

12.1 Union of BC Indian Chiefs at the Russell Tribunal, 1980

12.2 Petition by the Indian People of Canada to Queen Elizabeth II, 1980

12.3 United Kingdom House of Commons Debates, 1982

12.4 The Canada Act, 1982



Chapter 13

"Securing 'Necessaries'":

The Constitution and the Courts

13.1 Guerin v. The Queen, 1984

13.2 R. v. Sparrow , 1990

13.3 R. v. Marshall, 1999

13.4 R. v. Powley, 2003



Chapter 14

"It Was Time to Protect our Lands":

Conflict at Ipperwash

14.1 Report of the Ipperwash Inquiry, 2007

14.2 Testimony of Nicholas Cottrelle, 2005

14.3 Presentation of Sam George, 2006



Chapter 15

"A Unique Trust-Like Relationship": Modern Treaty Making

15.1 Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples, "Treaties," 1996

15.2 Speech by Chief Joseph Gosnell to the British Columbia Legislative Assembly, 1998

15.3 Are Treaties the Answer?: Panel Discussion at the Preparing for the Day After Treaty Conference, 2007



Appendix: Key People

Sources

Index

Info autore

Edited by Keith D. Smith

Riassunto

Covering topics such as the Indian Act, the High Arctic relocation of 1953, and the conflict at Ipperwash, Keith D. Smith draws on a diverse selection of documents including letters, testimonies, speeches, transcripts, newspaper articles, and government records.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Keith Smith, Keith D. Smith
• Con la collaborazione di: Keith Smith (Editore), Keith D Smith (Editore), Keith D. Smith (Editore)
• Editore: University of Toronto Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 20.08.2014
• EAN: 9781442608245
• ISBN: 978-1-4426-0824-5
• Pagine: 512
• Categorie: Saggistica > Storia > Altro; Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Etnologia > Etnologia; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Storia > Storia dei paesi e delle regioni