CONTENTS -- FOREWORD -- PREFACE -- MAP: Native Groups and Treaty Boundaries in Western Canada -- INTRODUCTORY ESSAY: As Long as the Sun Shines and Water Flows: An Historical Comment -- SECTION I: THE EVOLUTION OF INDIAN ADMINISTRATION SINCE THE ROYAL PROCLAMATION OF 1763 -- The Royal Proclamation of 7 October, 1763 -- 1. Protection, Civilization, Assimilation: An Outline History of Canada's Indian Policy -- 2. The Early Indian Acts: Developmental Strategy and Constitutional Change -- 3. Indian Land Cessions in Upper Canada, 1815-1830 -- 4. Herman Merivale and Colonial Office Indian Policy in the Mid-Nineteenth Century -- 5. A Victorian Civil Servant at Work: Lawrence Vankoughnet and the Canadian Indian Department, 1874-1893 -- 6. Clifford Sifton and Canadian Indian Administration 1896-1905 -- 7. The Administration of Treaty 3: The Location of the Boundaries of Treaty 3 Indian Reserves in Ontario, 1873-1915 -- 8. Canada's Indians Yesterday. What of Today? -- 9. The Politics of Indian Affairs -- SECTION II: NATIVE RESPONSES TO CHANGING RELATIONS AND CIRCUMSTANCES -- 1. Alcoholism, Indians and the Anti-Drink Cause in the Protestant Indian Missions of Upper Canada, 1822-1850 -- 2. The Tragedy of the Loss of the Commons in Western Canada -- 3. A Witness to Murder: The Cypress Hills Massacre and the Conflict of Attitudes towards the Native People of the Canadian-American West during the 1870's -- 4. Louis Riel and Aboriginal Rights -- 5. A Parting of the Ways: Louis Schmidt's Account of Louis Riel and the Metis Rebellion -- 6. La Conquête du Nord-Ouest, 1885-1985, or the Imperial Quest of British North America -- 7. Native People and the Justice System -- 8. Becoming Modern - Some Reflections on Inuit Social Change -- 9. The Inuit and the Constitutional Process: 1978-81 -- A Declaration of the First Nations, 18 November, 1981.

BIBLIOGRAPHIC ESSAY: The Indian in Canadian Historical Writing, 1971-1981 -- SUGGESTIONS FOR FURTHER READING -- NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS.