Introduction: Aboriginal History in a Colonial Context / Kristin Burnett and Geoff Read
1. World Views:
Indigeneity in Canada: Spirituality, the Sacred, and Survival / Dennis H. McPherson and J. Douglas Rabb
Indigenous Pedagogy: A Way Out of Dependency / Betty Bastien
2. Perspectives on Contact Imagining a Distant New World / Daniel K. Richter
Plan of Hochelaga Picturing Contact, Cartier, 1556 / Ramusio
Jacques Cartier and His First Interview with Indians at Hochelaga, 1850 / Andrew Morris
Into the Arctic Archipelago: Edward Parry in Igloolik and the Shaman's Curse / Dorothy Harley Eber
Excerpt from an Interview with Rosie Iqallijuq / Interviewed and translated by Louis Tapardjuk.
3. Population Debates:
Recent Work and Prospects in American Indian Contact Population / David Henige
Natural [Herbal] Medicine / Joseph-François Lafitau
Treaties and Tuberculosis: First Nations People in Late Nineteenth-Century Western Canada, A Political and Economic Transformation / J.W. Daschuk, Paul Hackett, and Scott MacNeil
Report of Acting Superintendent M.G. Dickieson, July 1879 / Office of the North-West Indian Superintendent, Battleford, N.W.T.
4. War, Conflict, and Society:
Slavery, the Fox Wars, and the Limits of Alliance / Brett Rushforth.
Baptisms, 21 September 1713
The Divided Ground: Upper Canada, New York, and the Iroquois Six Nations, 1783-1815 / Alan Taylor
Speech by Red Jacket, 21 November 1790 / Seneca War Chief, Red Jacket, speaking to representatives of the US government
5. The Fur Trade: Fur-Trade History as an Aspect of Native History / Arthur J. Ray
Minutes from the Excise Committee of the Hudson's Bay Company, 24 March 1673 / A Committee at the Excise office
Women, Kin, and Catholicism: New Perspectives on the Fur Trade / Susan Sleeper-Smith
Reminiscences of Early Days on Mackinac Island / Elizabeth Thérèse Baird.
6. Locating Métis Identity:
'I Shall Settle, Marry, and Trade Here': British Military Personnel and Their Mixed-Blood Descendants / Alexander V. Campbell
Métis Nationalism: Then and Now / Yvon Dumont
Only Pemmican Eaters? The International Press and Métis Identity, 1869-1885 / Geoff Read and Todd Webb
The Insurrection in Manitoba / Brisbane Courier
7. Federal Indian Policy:
Dreaming in Liberal White: Canadian Indian Policy, 1913-83 / Hugh Shewell.
Civilizing Influences / A proposed pamphlet by Thomas Deasy, Indian Agent, 1920
Our Medicines: First Nations Medical Practices and the Nanaimo Indian Hospital, 1945-1975 / Laurie Meijer Drees
Excerpt from an Interview with Violet Charlie 14 May 2008 / Interview by Laurie Meijer Drees.
8. Survivance, Identity, and the Indian Act:
Identity, Non-Status Indian, and Federally Unrecognized Peoples / Bonita Lawrence
Indian Act, 1867, Sections 3(3)-3(6)
Stuck at the Border of the Reserve: Bill C-31 and the Impact on First Nations Women / Jaime Mishibinijima
Excerpt from an Interview with Life Respondent 12, July 2008 / Interview by Jaime Mishibinijima
Indian Act, 1985, Section 6.
9. Residential Schools:
Always Remembering: Indian Residential Schools in Canada / Celia Haig-Brown
Program of Studies for Indian Schools, 1897
Reflections on the Indian Residential School Settlement Agreement: From Court Cases to Truth and Reconciliation / Lorena Sekwan Fontaine
Excerpt from the Indian Residential Schools Settlement Agreement, May 2006
Telling Truths and Seeking Reconciliation: Exploring the Challenges / Rupert Ross
10. Religion, Culture, and the Peoples of the North:
The Birth of a Catholic Inuit Community: The Transition to Christianity in Pelly Bay, NU, 1935-50 / Cornelius H.W. Remie and Jarich Oosten.
Excerpt from Codex Historicus, 25 December 1940 / Missionaries at Pelly Bay
Reflecting on the Future: New Technologies, New Frontiers / Naomi Adelson
Engaging and Integrating Technologies / Naomi Adelson
11. The Economy and Labour:
Vanishing the Indians: Aboriginal Labourers in Twentieth-Century British Columbia / John Lutz
Excerpts from the Diary of Arthur Wellington Clah / Introduction by John Lutz
Colonialism at Work: Labour Placement Programs for Aboriginal Women in Post-War Canada / Joan Sangster.
Indian Girls Achieve Successful Careers
Pave the Way for Others / Indian News (Newsletter published by the Department of Indian Affairs)
12. Aboriginal Women:
Categories and Terrains of Exclusion: Constructing the 'Indian Woman' in the Early Settlement Era in Western Canada / Sarah Carter.
Letter from Mrs Mary McNaughton Concerning the Chattels of Indian Women Married to White Men and Living on the Reserve, dated 15 December 1879 / Mary McNaughton, Cayuga tribe, to Sir John A. Macdonald
Making History: Elsie Marie Knott, Canada's First Female Indian Act Chief / Cora Voyageur
Excerpt from the Indian Act, 1951.
13. Negotiating Health and Well-Being:
Industrial Fisheries and the Health of Local Communities in the Twentieth-Century Canadian Northwest / Liza Piper
Letter from Chief Pierre Freezie to S.J. Bailey, 9 October 1950 / Petition to stop commercial fishing on Great Slave Lake
'The Indians Would Be Better Off If They Tended to Their Farms Instead of Dabbling in Fisheries' / Gabrielle Parent
Maps of the Thunder Bay Mining Region of Lake Superior / Geological and National History Survey of Canada, 1887
Early Pioneer Fur Trading Settlement / Newspaper Advertisement from Canadian Bank of Commerce, 1954.
On the Nipigon River, Whitchers Camp at Hamilton Pool / W.F. Langworthy
On the Nipigon River, One Hour's Catch at Big Canoe Portage / W.F. Langworthy
'This is a real Indian canoe in the picture, White water rapids from below' / White Charles and W.F. Langworthy
On the Nipigon River, 'Guzz Brother's Camp at Pizer Portage. Trout bearing camp, July 1884' / W.F. Langworthy
14. Political Activism:
'Nothing Left for Me or Any Other Indian': The Georgian Bay Anishnabeke Interwar Articulations of Aboriginal Rights / Robin Jarvis Brownlie
Letter from Elijah Tabobondung to Jon Daly, Indian Agent, 12 August 1923, Copperhead, Perry Sound, ON / Anishinabe fisherman to a lawyer.
Power, Praxis and the Métis of Kelly Lake, Canada / David Bentley and Brenda Murphy
Rare Health Services Come to Métis at Kelly Lake / Joan Taillon
15. Treaties and Self-Governance:
Ally or Colonizer?: The Federal State, the Cree Nation, and the James Bay Agreement / Paul Rynard
Excerpt from Cree Regional Authority et al. v. Attorney-General of Quebec, 1991.
Recognition by Assimilation: Mi'kmaq Treaty Rights, Fisheries Privatization, and Community Resistance in Nova Scotia [Micmac, Mikmaq] / Martha Stiegman and Sherry Pictou
The Guides, 1899
The Guides, 2009. Harvesters from Bear River First Nation, Bear River First Nation Decendants / Martha Stiegman and Sherry Pictou.