Harry Swain, a former Deputy Minister of Indian Affairs in the Government of Canada, has said: “At the still, dead heart of the relationship between Canada and aboriginal peoples is the Indian Act itself, a Victorian horror insufficiently updated and now in urgent need of replacement. Under the guise of protecting Indians from rapacious frontiersmen in the Read More…

Since reading Peter Russell’s book Canada’s Odyssey some years ago, I have done much more reading on this topic, in particular the work of J.R. Miller, Emeritus Professor of History at the University of Saskatchewan and surely a, if not the, preeminent authority on the subject. What follows are notes based on the material I’ve read. Aboriginal organizations were Read More…