Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction / Myra Rutherdale, P. Whitney Lackenbauer, and Kerry Abel -- The Simcoes and the Indians / Kerry Abel -- Lord Bury and the First Nations : a year in the Canadas / Donald B. Smith -- "Chief teller of tales" : John Buchan's ideas on Indigenous peoples, the Commonwealth, and an emerging idea of Canada, 1935-1940 / Brendan Frederick R. Edwards -- At the crossroads of militarism and modernization : Inuit-military relations in the Cold War Arctic / P. Whitney Lackenbauer -- Alaska Highway nurses and DEW line doctors : medical encounters in northern Canadian Indigenous communities / Myra Rutherdale -- Negotiating aboriginal interraciality in three early British Columbian Indian reservation schools / Jean Barman -- Language, place, and kinship ties : past and present necessities for Metis education / Jonathan Anuik -- They have suffered the most : First Nations and the aftermath of the 1885 North-West rebellion / Bill Waiser -- "Powerless to protect" : Ontario game protection legislation, unreported and indetermined case law, and the criminalization of Indian hunting in the Robinson Treaty territories, 1892-1931 / Frank J. Tough -- One good thing : law and elevator etiquette in the Indian territories / Hamar Foster -- Reclaiming history through the courts : aboriginal rights, the Marshall decision, and maritime history / Kenneth S. Coates -- "We could not help noticing the fact that many of them were cross-eyed" : historical evidence and Coast Salish leadership / Keith Thor Carlson -- An appealing anthropology, frozen in time : Diamond Jenness's 'The Indians of Canada' / Dianne Newell and Arthur J. Ray -- Aboriginal research in troubled times / Alan C. Cairns.