With good intentions : Euro-Canadian and Aboriginal relations in colonial Canada

Haig-Brown, Celia, 1947- (Added Author). Nock, David, 1949- (Added Author).

Record details

ISBN: 0774811374
ISBN: 9780774811378
Physical Description: x, 358 p. : ill., ports. ; 24 cm.
print
Publisher: Vancouver : UBC Press, c2006.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [331]-346) and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

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. Honore Joseph Jaxon : a lifelong friend of aboriginal Canada / Donald B. 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 -- App. The fair play papers - the future of our Indians.