[Post-Print] A glimmer of hope: A review of recent works on the relations between Indigenous peoples and settler society

Book review of nine titles: "Compact, contract, covenant: Aboriginal treaty-making in Canada" by J.R. Miller (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2009); "Home is the hunter: The James Bay Cree and their land" by Hans M. Carlson (Vancouver: UBC Press, 2008); "The importance...

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Main Author: Smith, Keith D.
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: University of Toronto Press 2010
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10613/2996
https://doi.org/10.1353/jcs.2010.0030
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Summary:Book review of nine titles: "Compact, contract, covenant: Aboriginal treaty-making in Canada" by J.R. Miller (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2009); "Home is the hunter: The James Bay Cree and their land" by Hans M. Carlson (Vancouver: UBC Press, 2008); "The importance of being monogamous: Marriage and nation building in western Canada to 1915" by Sarah Carter (Edmonton: University of Alberta Press and Athabasca University Press, 2008); "The Indian commissioners: Agents of the state and Indian policy in Canada's prairie west, 1873-1932" by Brian Titley (Edmonton: University of Alberta Press, 2009); "Lament for a First Nation: The Williams Treaties of southern Ontario" by Peggy Blair (Vancouver: UBC Press, 2008); "Landing Native fisheries: Indian reserves and fishing rights in British Columbia, 1849-1925" by Douglas C. Harris (Vancouver: UBC Press, 2008); "Lines drawn upon the water: First Nations and the Great Lakes borders and borderlands" edited by Karl S. Hele (Waterloo, ON: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2008); "Makúk: A new history of Aboriginal-white relations" by John Sutton Lutz (Vancouver: UBC Press, 2008); and "The red Indians: An episodic, informal collection of tales from the history of Aboriginal People's struggles in Canada" by Peter Kulchyski (Winnipeg: Arbeiter Ring, 2007). Post-print version This is a pre-copyedited, author-produced version of a review published as: Smith, K. (2010). "A glimmer of hope: A review of recent works on the relations between Indigenous peoples and settler society". Journal of Canadian Studies / Revue d’études canadiennes, 44(2), 219-229. DOI:10.1353/jcs.2010.0030. Journal of Canadian Studies / Revue d’études canadiennes is available online at: https://www.utpjournals.com/Journal-of-Canadian-Studies.html and this review is available at: https://muse.jhu.edu/article/403971/pdf https://viuspace.viu.ca/bitstream/handle/10613/2996/Smith.CJS.pdf?sequence=3