Includes bibliographical references.

New France --Jesuits and the Fur Trade / Bruce G. Trigger -- French sovereignty and native nationhood during the French régime / Cornelius J. Jaenen -- Colonial Atlantic Canada -- Amerindians between French and English in Nova Scotia, 1713-1763 / Olive Patricia Dickason -- Extermination of the Beothucks of Newfoundland / L.F.S. Upton -- Military alliance -- Six Nations Indians in the Revolutionary War / Barbara Graymont -- Indians of the War of 1812 / George F.G. Stanley -- Emergence of Civil Indian policy -- Protection, civilization, assimilation: an outline history of Canada's Indian policy / John L. Tobias -- Early Indian Acts: developmental strategy and constitutional change / John S. Milloy -- Emerging relationship in Western Canada -- Trade habits and economic motivation among the Indians of North America / E.E. Rich -- Impact of white women on Fur Trade society / Sylvia Van Kirk. Treaties and reserves -- Canada's North-West Indian policy in the 1870s: traditional premises and necessary innovations / John Leonard Taylor -- Canada's subjugation of the Plains Cree, 1879-1885 / John L. Tobias -- Northwest rebellion -- Northwest rebellion of 1885 / J.R. Miller -- Indian view of the 1885 uprising / A. Blair Stonechild -- Relations on the Pacific -- Indian control onf the Maritime Fur Trade and the Northwest Coast / Robin Fisher -- Duncan of Metlakatla: the Victorian origins of a model Indian community / Jean Usher (Friesen) -- Policy of the Bible and the plough -- Owen Glendower, Hotspur, and Canadian Indian Policy / J.R. Miller -- Two acres and a cow: 'peasant' farming for the Indians of the North West, 1889-1897 / Sarah Carter -- Emergence of native political organization -- Native peoples of the Prairie provinces in the 1920s and 1930s / Stan Cuthand -- Hat in hand: the long fight to organize / Harold Cardinal -- Contemporary disputes -- Aboriginal rights, land claims, and the struggle to survive / J.R. Miller -- Future of native rights / Donald Purich -- Native peoples and the environment -- Indian's interpretation of man and nature / Diamond Jenness -- Population and human resources / World Commission on Environment and Development (The Bruntland Report) -- Lessons from Indigenous peoples / Peter Jull -- Conclusion by J.R. Miller. .