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For more than a century, government policy towards Aboriginal peoples in Canada was shaped by paternalistic attitudes and an ultimate goal of assimilation. Indeed, remnants of that thinking still linger today, more than thirty years after protests against the White Paper of 1969 led to reconsideration Canada's 'Indian' policy. In A Fatherly Eye, historian Robin Brownlie examines how paternalism and assimilation during the interwar period were made manifest in the 'field', far from the bureaucrats in Ottawa, but never free of their oppressive supervision. At the same time, she...

When Sylvia Van Kirk published her groundbreaking book "Many Tender Ties "in 1980, she revolutionized the historical understanding of the North American fur trade and introduced entirely new areas of inquiry in women s, social, and Aboriginal history. "Finding a Way to the Heart "examines Van Kirk s work, her academic career, and her influence on a generation of feminist scholarship in fur trade and gender history, the history of Aboriginal women, the North American west, Nativenewcomer relations, and multicultural history. Using Van Kirk s themes and methodologies as a jumping-off point,...