As Long As the Sun Shines and Water Flows

Ian A.L. Getty is research director at the Nakoda Institute. Antoine S. Lussier is director of the Native Studies programme at the University of Saskatchewan.

Without question, the new reader by Getty and Lussier provides the best selection of historical articles on Canada's Native peoples ever to appear ... It should be required reading for all attending future constitutional conferences on aboriginal rights. Ian Getty and Antoine Lussier have contributed to a new appreciation of Canada's native people. - Donald Smith (NeWest Review)

• ForewordPrefaceMapIntroductory EssaySection I: The Evolution of Indian Administration Since the Royal Proclamation of 17631 Protection, Civilization, Assimilation: An Outline History of Canada's Indian Policy2 The Early Indian Acts: Developmental Strategy and Constitutional Change3 Indian Land Cessions in Upper Canada, 1815-18304 Herman Merivale and Colonial Office Indian Policy in the Mid-Nineteenth Century5 A Victorian Civil Servant at Work: Lawrence Vankoughnet and the Canadian Indian Department, 1874-18936 Clifford Sifton and Canadian Indian Administration 1896-19057 The Administration of Treaty 3: The Location of the Boundaries of Treaty 3 Indian Reserves in Ontario, 1873-19158 Canada's Indians Yesterday – What of Today?9 The Politics of Indian AffairsSection II: Native Responses to Changing Relations and Circumstances1 Alcoholism, Indians and the Anti-Drink Cause in the Protestant Indian Missions of Upper Canada, 1822-18502 The Tragedy of the Loss of the Commons in Western Canada3 A Witness to Murder: The Cypress Hills Massacre and the Conflict of Attitudes towards the Native People of the Canadian-American West during the 1870s4 Louis Riel and Aboriginal Rights5 A Parting of the Ways: Louis Schmidt's Account of Louis Riel and the Metis Rebellion6 La Conquete du Nord-Ouest, 1885-1985, or the Imperial Quest of British North America7 Native People and the Justice System8 Becoming Modern – Some Reflections on Inuit Social Change9 The Inuit and the Constitutional Process: 1978-81A Declaration of the First Nations, 18 November, 19811983 Constitutional Accord on Aboriginal RightsBibliographic EssayThe Indian in Canadian Historical Writing, 1971-1981Suggestions for Further ReadingNotes on Contributors