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A fatherly eye : Indian agents, government power, and Aboriginal resistance in Ontario, 1918-1939 /

"This study sheds new light on a time and a place we know little about. Brownlie focuses on two Indian agencies in southern Ontario - Parry Sound and Manitowaning (on Manitoulin Island) - and the contrasting management styles of two agents, John Daly and Robert Lewis, especially during the Grea...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Brownlie, Robin, 1963- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Don Mills, Ontario : Oxford University Press, 2003.
Colección:Canadian social history series.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Homeland: the area and the people
  • 'A particularly authoritarian organization': the administrative context
  • 'It did not matter who was chief': band councils
  • 'Easy to trick people by putting words on paper': treaties and Aboriginal rights
  • 'Economy must be observed': assistance measure
  • 'Always and only an Indian': assimilation in practice.