Earth, Water, Air and Fire

David T. McNab is a Métis historian who has worked for three decades on Aboriginal land and treaty rights issues in Canada. McNab teaches in the School of Arts and Letters in the Atkinson Faculty of Liberal and Professional Studies at York University in Toronto where he is Associate Professor of Indigenous Studies. He has also been a claims advisor for Nin.Da.Waab.Jig., Walpole Island Heritage Center, Bkejwanong First Nations since 1992. In addition to more than seventy articles, McNab has published Earth, Water, Air and Fire: Studies in Canadian Ethnohistory (editor) (1998) and Circles of Time: Aboriginal Land Rights and Resistance in Ontario (1999) as well as the co-edited (with Ute Lischke) Blockades and Resistance: Studies in Actions of Peace and the Temagami Blockades of 1988-89 (2003), Walking a Tightrope: Aboriginal People and their Representations (2005), and The Long Journey of a Forgotten People: Métis Identities and Family Histories, (2007) all with WLU Press.

"The fact that this book exists at all is a very encouraging thing for anyone who believes that to understand a people better, one must not only look at the parts, but the whole." -- Cheryl Isaac -- Aboriginal Voices

• Table of Contents for Earth, Water, Air and Fire: Studies in Canadian Ethnohistory , edited by David T. McNab for Nin.Da.Waab.Jig Introduction | David T. McNab Part I: Aboriginal Perspectives BkejwanongââThe Place Where the Waters Divideâ: A Perspective on Earth, Water, Air and Fire | Dean M. Jacobs Art and Amerindian Worldviews | Olive Patricia Dickason Part II: Bkejwanong Territory âWater Is Her Life Bloodâ: The Waters of Bkejwanong and the Treaty-Making Process | David T. McNab âUnder the Earthâ: The Expropriation and Attempted Sale of the Oil and Gas Rights of the Walpole Island First Nation during World War | Rhonda Telford The Reverend Simpson Brigham (1875â1926): The Worlds of Henry Ford and Simpson Brigham Collide | Jim Miller Part III: Miâkmaâki and the Miâkmaq Nation Miâkmaq Fishing in the Maritimes: A Historical Overview | Janet E. Chute âWe Cannot Work Without Foodâ: Nova Scotia Indian Policy and Miâkmaq Agriculture, 1783â1867 | Theresa Redmond Glooscap Encounters Silas T. Rand: A Baptist Missionary on the Folkloric Fringe | Thomas S. Abler Part IV: Ontario: History, Law and Sovereignty Colonizing a People: Mennonite Settlement in Waterloo Township | E. Reginald Good The Six Nations Confederacy, Aboriginal Sovereignty and Ontario Aboriginal Law: 1790â1860 | Sidney L. Harring The Uses and Abuses of Power in Two Ontario Residential Schools: The Mohawk Institute and Mount Elgin | Elizabeth Graham The Crown Domain and the Self-Governing Presence in Northern Ontario | Bruce W. Hodgins Part V: The North, Gender and Aboriginal Governance Some Comments upon the Marked Differences in the Representations of Chipewyan Women in Samuel Hearneâs Field Notes and His Published Journal | Heather Rollason Is This Apartheid? Aboriginal Reserves and Self-Government in Canada, 1960â82 | Joan G. Fairweather The Sechelt and Nunavut Agreements: Evolutionary and Revolutionary Approaches to Self-Government | Cameron Croxall and Laird Christie Retrospect A Meeting Ground of Earth, Water, Air and Fire | David T. McNab Contributors Index Contributors Thomas S. Abler is a professor of anthropology at the University of Waterloo. He has written widely on the Haudenosaunee and on Aboriginal people in Canada generally. Laird Christie teaches anthropology at Wilfrid Laurier University. He is continuing his research on self-government in the Canadian North. Janet E. Chute is a research associate with the School of Resource and Environmental Studies at Dalhousie University. She is the author of a forthcoming study entitled The Legacy of Shingwakonse which is scheduled to be published in the spring of 1998. Cameron Croxall is currently completing a Master of Arts degree at Trent University, Peterborough, Ontario. Olive Patricia Dickason, a member of the Order of Canada, is Professor Emeritus in history at the University of Alberta as well as adjunct professor at the University of Ottawa. Professor Dickason is well known for her Canadaâs First Nations: A History of Founding Peoples from Earliest Times . In 1997 Professor Dickason received the Aboriginal Lifetime Achievement Award. Joan G. Fairweather currently resides in South Africa and works at the Centre for History and Culture at the University of the Western Cape. An archivist at the National Archives of Canada in Ottawa, she is currently on leave for two years and is continuing her research on the history of apartheid. E. Reginald Good is a historian who currently is working as a historical research consultant for the Saugeen Ojibways in Ontario. Elizabeth Graham, an anthropologist, resides in Waterloo, Ontario. She is completing a study on residential schools in southern Ontario. Sidney L. Harring teaches law at the City University of New York Law School and the Graduate Center, City University of New York. He has published widely on Aboriginal legal history in North America and is the author of Crow Dogâs Case (1994). Bruce W. Hodgins is a professor of history at Trent University in Peterborough, Ontario. Author of numerous books and articles on Canadian history, he is an authority on the history of Northern Ontario and the Lake Temagami area in particular. Dean M. Jacobs is the executive director for Nin.Da.Waab.Jig., the Walpole Island Heritage Centre, Bkejwanong Territory. He has published a number of articles on the history of Bkejwanong and co-ordinated the publication of the award-winning Walpole Island: The Soul of Indian Territory (1987) for Nin.Da.Waab.Jig. In the spring of 1998 he received an honorary doctorate from Bowling Green State University. David T. McNab is a claims advisor for Nin.Da.Wab.Jig. and an Honorary External Associate in the Frost Centre for Canadian Heritage and Development Studies at Trent University. Author of numerous articles on Aboriginal land and treaty rights as well as on Metis history, his Circles of Time: Aboriginal Land Rights and Resistance in Ontario is forthcoming from Wilfrid Laurier University Press. Jim Miller resides in Port Lambton. He is Professor Emeritus at the University of Western Ontario and former priest-in-charge of St. John the Baptist Anglican Church on Walpole Island. Professor Miller has recently completed, with Professor Ed Danziger, Jr., a study of residential schools in partnership with the citizens of Bkejwanong. Theresa Redmond is currently Litigation Project Manager for the federal Department of Indian and Northern Affairs in Hull, Quebec. Heather Rollason currently resides in Toronto and is completing work on Samuel Hearneâs Journal and the Chipewyan people for her PhD in history at the University of Alberta. Rhonda Telford is a Toronto-based historical research consultant on Aboriginal rights for First Nations in Ontario. A PhD graduate from the University of Toronto in 1996, she has written on Aboriginal and treaty mineral rights as well as on the nineteenth-century Indian Department.