Includes bibliographical references (pages 331-346) and index.

Introduction / David A. Nock and Celia Haig-Brown -- Horatio Hale : forgotten Victorian author of positive Aboriginal representation / David A. Nock -- Trust us : a case study in colonial social relations based on documents prepared by the Aborigines Protection Society, 1836-1912 / Michael D. Blackstock -- A Mi'kmaq missionary among the Mohawks : Silas T. Rand and his attitudes toward race and "progress" / Thomas S. Abler -- A visionary on the edge : Allan Macdonell and the championing of Native resource rights / Alan Knight and Janet E. Chute -- Taking up the torch : Simon J. Dawson and the Upper Great Lakes' Native resource campaign of the 1860s and 1870s / Janet E. Chute and Alan Knight -- The "friends" of Nahnebahwequa / Celia Haig-Brown -- Aboriginals and their influence on E.F. Wilson's paradigm revolution / David A. Nock -- Good intentions gone awry : from protection to confinement in Emma Crosby's Home for Aboriginal Girls / Jan Hare and Jean Barman -- The "cordial advocate" : Amelia McLean Paget and The people of the plains / Sarah A. Carter -- Honoré Joseph Jaxon : a lifelong friend of Aboriginal Canada / Donald B. Smith -- Arthur Eugene O'Meara : servant, advocate, seeker of justice / Mary Haig-Brown -- "They wanted ... me to help them" : James A. Teit and the challenge of ethnography in the Boasian era / Wendy Wickwire.