1885 and after : native society in transition

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1885 and after : native society in transition / edited by F. Laurie Barron and James B. Waldram.

Barron, F. L. (Added Author). Waldram, James B. (James Burgess) (Added Author). "1885 and After" Conference (1985 : University of Saskatchewan) (Added Author).

Summary:

Contains most of the papers presented at a conference held in early May 1985. Conference was hosted by the Native Studies Department of the University of Saskatchewan. Part I is concerned with events leading up to and including the Northwest Rebellian of 1885 while Part II focusses on the transition of native society in the aftermath of 1885.

Record details

ISBN: 0889770425
ISBN: 9780889770423
Physical Description: xii, 306 pages ; 23 cm
Publisher: Regina, Sask., Canada : Canadian Plains Research Center, University of Regina, ©1986.

Content descriptions

General Note:: "The papers contained in this volume were presented originally at the "1885 and After" Conference, held at the University of Saskatchewan ..."--Page [vii].
Bibliography, etc. Note:: Includes bibliographical references.
Formatted Contents Note:: Pt. I. Rebellion Era: The Evolution of Conflict. The Last Word on Louis Riel: The Man of Several Faces / George F. G. Stanley -- Frontiers in Transition: Nova Scotia 1713-1763 Compared to the North-West 1869-1885 / Olive P. Dickason -- The Impact on Eastern Canada of Events in Saskatchewan in 1885 / A.I. Silver -- Colonization Companies and the North-West Rebellion / Andre N. Lalonde -- The Rise and Fall of Louis Riel and the Metis Nation: An Anthropological Account / Paul Driben -- 1885: Metis Rebellion or Government Conspiracy? / Donald McLean -- Louis Riel: Was He Really Crazy? / Thomas Flanagan -- An Opportunity Lost: The Initiative of the Reserve Agricultural Programme in the Prairie West / Noel Dyck -- Indian Agents and the North-West Rebellion / F. Laurie Barron -- The Indian View of the 1885 Uprising / A. Blair Stonechild -- Pt. II. The Aftermath: Native Society in Transition. Batoche After 1885, A Society in Transition / Diane Payment -- The North-West Rebellion Script Commissions, 1885-1889 / Ken Hatt -- Comment on Ken Hatt, "The North-West Rebellion Script Commissions, 1885-1889" / Thomas Flanagan -- Rip Van Jaxon: the Return of Riel's Secretary in 1884-1885 to the Canadian West, 1907-1909 / Donald B. Smith -- The North Wet Mounted Police and Indian Policy after the 1885 Rebellion / John Jennings -- The Origins of the Treaty Rights Movement in Saskatchewan / John L. Tobias -- More than a Matter of Blood: The Federal Government, the Churches and the Mixed Blood Populations of the Yukon and the Mackenzie River Valley, 1890-1950 / K.S. Coates and W.R. Morrison -- The "Other Side": Ethnostatus Distinctions in Western Subarctic Native Communities / James B. Waldram -- Metis Self-Government in Saskatchewan / Wayne McKenzie.