A Fatherly Eye

by Brownlie, Robin Jarvis

• ISBN13: 9780195417845
• ISBN10: 0195417844
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-08-01
• Publisher: Univ of Toronto Pr

Summary

"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 Great Depression. In administering the lives of the Anishinabek people, the government paid inadequate attention to the protection of treaty rights and was excessively concerned with maintaining control, in part through the paternalistic provision of assistance that helped to silence critics of the system and prevent political organizing. As Brownlie concludes, the Indian Affairs system still does not work well, and has come to represent all that is most oppressive about the history of colonization in this country."--BOOK JACKET.

Author Biography

ROBIN JARVIS BROWNLIE is assistant professor, Department of History, University of Manitoba.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
Introduction
Homeland: The Area and the People	p. 1
'A Particularly Authoritarian Organization': The Administrative Context	p. 29
'It Did Not Matter Who Was Chief': Band Councils	p. 56
'Easy to Trick People by Putting Words on Paper': Treaties and Aboriginal Rights	p. 80
'Economy Must Be Observed': Assistance Measures	p. 99
'Always and Only an Indian': Assimilation in Practice	p. 124
Conclusion	p. 150
App. Treaties	p. 158
Notes	p. 168
Index	p. 199
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