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table of contents
  1. Cover
  2. Acknowledgements
  3. Chapter 1. The Liberal Surveillance Complex
  4. Chapter 2. The Transformation of Indigenous Territory
  5. Chapter 3. Churches, Police Forces, and the Department of Indian Affairs
  6. Chapter 4. Disciplinary Surveillance and the Department of Indian Affairs
  7. Chapter 5. The British Columbia Interior and the Treaty 7 Region to 1877
  8. Chapter 6. The British Columbia Interior, 1877 to 1927
  9. Chapter 7. The Treaty 7 Region After 1877
  10. Chapter 8. Exclusionary Liberalism in World War I and Beyond
  11. Notes
  12. Bibliography
  13. Index

Index

bold numbers indicate illustrations

A

  • Abbott, Frederick, 54
  • Aborigines Protection Society (APS), 123–124
  • Adrienne, Chief, 150
  • advocacy groups, 171–172
  • Africa, 124
  • agriculture: as civilizing influence, 218
    • and DIA farm instructors, 106–107
    • by First Nations in BC, 40–41, 128, 143, 161–162
    • by Kainai, 107
    • and land for returning veterans, 229–230
    • and permit system, 100, 103
    • and pressure to reduce reserves, 206, 214–215
    • during WWI, 224–226
  • Ahern, P. K., 84
  • Alberta, Government of, 200
  • Alberta Provincial Police, 58
  • alcoholism, 121, 176, 182
  • Alfred, Taiaiake, 3, 14, 25, 124
  • Allied Tribes: and 1927 Special Joint
    • Committee hearings, 94–95, 192–194
    • resistance to McKenna-McBride
    • Commission report, 188–189, 190–192
  • Arblaster, Anthony, 13
  • Ash, John, 144
  • assimilation, 45, 49–50, 95–96, 142
  • August, Minnie, 74

B

  • Baker, James, 82
  • Balf, Mary, 119
  • Basil, Dick, 108
  • Bazile, Chief, 122, 123
  • BCPP (British Columbia Provincial Police): conflict with NWMP, 83
    • hiring First Nations, 84
    • number of men in, 83
    • relations with First Nations, 56–57, 80
    • surveillance, 74–75, 89
  • Bearspaw band, 32
  • Belyea, Barbara, 135
  • Bentham, Jeremy, 4–5
  • Bigstony, Jonas, 198
  • Black Plume, Chief, 125
  • Blackfoot: government attempt to split up, 203–204
    • history before European contact, 31, 32
    • philosophy of, 11
    • relations with NWMP, 80, 84
    • resistance to reserve policy, 148
    • and Treaty 7, 146–147, 153–155
    • and US, 55, 152
  • Blake, Edward, 113
  • Blake, Samuel H., 1
  • Blenkinsop, George, 44
  • Borden, Robert, 179, 188
  • Bostock, Hewitt, 190
  • Brealey, Kenneth, 163
  • Bridgman, A., 173, 174
  • British Columbia: becomes province of Canada, 140–141, 148
    • number of DIA agents in, 97–99
    • population growth, 133
    • pre-confederation history with First Nations, 46–47
    • restrictions on movement of First Nations, 73–77
  • British Columbia, Government of: and BCTC, 25
    • conflict with Canada on First Nations’ policy, 141–143, 144, 148–149, 161, 166, 171, 233
    • early relations with First Nations, 134, 138–143, 148–149
    • effect of liberalism on, 232
    • and exclusionary liberalism, 148–149, 158–159
    • importance of relationship with federal government, 46–47, 159, 166
    • and Joint Reserve Commission, 144–145
    • in Long Lake dispute, 174–175
    • and McKenna-McBride Commission, 179–188, 189–190
    • and NWMP, 82–83
    • reaction to First Nations’ resistance, 144, 171
    • reducing size of reserves, 163–166
    • reserve land reversion, 165, 179
    • restrictions on movement of First Nations, 77
    • view of Aboriginal title, 46–47, 133, 142–143, 148, 149, 171, 172
    • view of consent, 138–139, 179, 189
  • British Columbia Provincial Police. see BCPP (British Columbia Provincial Police)
  • British Columbia Treaty Commission (BCTC), 25
  • Brown, J.R., 126, 176
  • Buckleypeach, Dominic, 181
  • buffalo, 31, 33, 35, 40
  • Bullhead, Chief, 105, 202, 203
  • Burnett, Inspector, 79
  • business, 75, 76, 77, 80–81, 99–103. see also capitalism
  • Butcher, Chief, 212

C

  • Cail, Robert, 137
  • Calgary, City of, 203
  • Canada, Government of (see also Department of Indian Affairs) (DIA): assimilation policy, 45
  • buys land, 145, 203
  • conflict with BC on reserve policy, 141–143, 144, 148–149, 161, 166, 171, 233
  • cutbacks in expenses, 103, 164
  • and First Nations’ land use, 41
  • and First Nations’ resistance, 143–144, 170–171
  • importance of relationship with BC, 46–47, 159, 166
  • informed by British experience, 44–45
  • and Joint Reserve Commission, 144–145
  • Kainai appeal to, 209
  • and land reversion in BC, 165, 179
  • and McKenna-McBride Commission, 179–188, 189–190
  • and Okanagan, 42
  • and pass system, 70
  • and reduction of Indian reserves in BC, 163–164, 166
  • removal of consent by, 189, 194, 208
  • and Treaty 7, 47–48, 98, 131– 132, 146–147, 152–156
  • use of coercion by, 132–133, 173, 227
  • view of Aboriginal title, 136–137, 144–145, 158–159, 161
  • view of consent, 133, 137, 164, 178, 221
  • Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR), 11, 213–214
  • Capilano, Joe, 170
  • capitalism: and Anglo-Canadian morality, 110–113
  • and Canada changing rules to protect, 159
  • as component of liberalism, 11–12
  • details of Treaty 7 which support, 157–158
  • Indian agents duties for, 108, 109
  • and Joint Reserve Commission, 144–145
  • and Kootenay Plains reserve, 199 and McKenna-McBride Commission, 185
  • police defense of, 56
  • supported by BC government, 166
  • supported by surveillance, 7, 131
  • and Tsuu T’ina reserve, 201, 202
  • and use of reserves, 137–138, 140, 141
  • Cardinal, Harold, 47
  • Carter, Sarah, 225
  • census taking, 117, 178
  • Certeau, Michel de, 136
  • Chase, Whitfield, 151, 152
  • Chelouis, Chief, 140
  • Chewile, Chief, 177
  • Chiefs: deposing of, 102–103, 125–126, 174, 176, 178;
    • election of, 123–125
    • threatened deposing of, 205, 212, 213
  • Chiefs Bear’s Paw, 155
  • Chilheetsa, Johnny, 176, 184, 190
  • Chiniquay, John, 155, 198
  • Chiniquay band, 32
  • Christianization, 45, 55, 169
  • Christie, James H.: as Indian advocate, 47, 126, 172–173
    • and Long Lake sale and surrender, 175, 176, 177, 178
  • civilizing movement: and agriculture, 218
    • as BC policy, 139, 142
    • of British, 45
    • of DIA, 99, 106
    • by enforcing Anglo-Canadian morality, 110–113
    • by enforcing housing and sanitation, 112–114
    • and gradations of Indianness, 19–20, 186–187
    • and hiring Indian Police, 87
    • and missionaries, 55, 167
    • and selecting First Nations’ leaders, 123–124
    • and surveillance, 51–52
    • and Tsuu T’ina, 201
  • Clark, J.W., 190, 192
  • Clemah, Edward, 182
  • colonialism (see also imperialism): author’s methodology for, 24–25
    • and BC’s First Nations’ policy, 139–140
    • and DIA’s control of First Nations’ leaders, 123–127
    • and effect on understanding First Nations, 18–21, 24
    • explanation of process, 7–8; internal, 10
    • as part of liberal rule, 233–234, 235–236
    • and religion, 169 and reserves, 8–9
    • supported by surveillance, 17–18, 27
    • of Treaty 7, 147, 156
    • in Western Canada, 8–10
  • Conaty, Gerald, 11, 35
  • Conference of Friends of the Indians of British Columbia, 171
  • consent: BC’s view of, 138–139, 179, 189
    • Canada’s view of, 133, 137, 164, 178, 221
    • Canadian government’s removal of, 189, 194, 208
    • considered at McKenna-McBride Commission, 180, 189
    • under false pretenses, 146, 173, 204
    • in Indian Act, 144, 221, 225, 228
    • refusal to give, 170, 217, 219
  • Cooper, Frederick, 124
  • Cox, William, 140
  • CPR (Canadian Pacific Railway), 11, 213–214
  • Cree, 31, 147
  • Crop Eared Wolf, 125–126, 204, 206
  • Crow Shield, Chief, 105
  • Crowfoot, Chief, 153, 154–155, 214
  • Cummiskey, T. J., 111, 126, 175, 176, 178
  • Cuthbert, A. Ross, 68

D

  • Dakota, 32
  • Daly, Thomas M., 70, 76, 78
  • Darling, H.C., 45
  • David, Basil, 170
  • De Balinhard, W., 64
  • Deane, R.B., 65
  • Dempsey, Hugh, 153, 157, 220
  • Dene, 31
  • Dennison, H.T., 120, 227
  • Denny, C.E., 213
  • Department of Indian Affairs (DIA): aid to war veterans, 228–230
    • annual reports of, 1, 115–117, 127
    • conflict with NWMP, 77–79, 211, 212
    • and consent, 221
    • defends McKenna-McBride Commission, 189–192
    • employment of First Nations, 85–86, 87, 123
    • employment of J. McDougall, 54, 55, 167–169, 199, 202, 204–205
    • failure to help First Nations, 94–96, 127–129
    • and farm instructors, 106–107
    • Greater Production scheme, 224–226
    • and imposed system of politics, 123–126
    • and Kainai resistance, 203–210
    • Long Lake sale and surrender, 173–178
    • and missionaries, 52–54, 55, 167–169
    • and Nakoda, 198–200
    • number and cost of employees, 96–99, 103, 106, 120–121
    • pass system, 60, 61–68
    • permit system, 99–103
    • and Piikani resistance, 210–213
    • quality of information gathered, 93–96
    • reserve policy, 49–50, 136, 137
    • and restriction of movement in BC, 74–77
    • sanitation scheme, 112, 113–114
    • selecting supportive First Nations’ Chiefs, 123–127
    • and Siksika surrender, 213–219
    • surveillance of First Nations, 16–18, 52, 93–94, 96
    • and Treaty 7, 147
    • and Tsuu T’ina surrender, 201–203
    • use of coercion to reduce reserves, 206–209
    • withholding food rations, 69, 79–80, 105, 111, 122–123
    • works with BCPP, 56–57
    • works with NWMP, 59–60, 68–73, 81, 125–126, 205
    • worry about outside agitation, 172–173, 189, 201, 205, 208
  • Dewdney, Edgar: and agent Lucas, 121
    • and First Nations’ leadership, 124
    • and Indian Police, 85–86
    • and Nakoda, 198
    • and pass system, 62, 64, 66
    • and permit system, 100
    • and restricting movement of women, 75
    • and surveillance, 106
    • as surveyor, 140
  • DIA. see Department of Indian Affairs (DIA)
  • Dilworth, W.J., 206, 207–208, 209
  • Dingman, A.W., 202
  • disease, 42, 43–44
  • Ditchburn, W. E., 95, 108, 119–120, 172, 189, 190–191, 192
  • Dorian, A.A., 59
  • Douglas, James, 94–95, 138, 139–140
  • Dreyfus, Hubert, 3
  • Duff, Wilson, 169
  • Duncan, William, 52
  • Dunsmuir, James, 165
  • Dyck, Noel, 8

E

  • education, 54, 168
  • electoral politics, 124–125
  • employment: of First Nations by DIA, 85–86, 87, 123
    • of First Nations in BC, 142
    • in Greater Production scheme, 224–226
    • provided by reserves, 137–138
    • and work habits of scouts, 87–88
    • equality: denied to First Nations, 14–15, 148, 183
    • in First Nations’ society, 34–35
    • as pillar of liberalism, 11–12, 14–15, 26
    • and politics, 159
  • Evans, James, 183
  • exclusionary liberalism: comparison of BC and Canadian approach to, 148–149, 158–159
    • in liberal Canada, 14, 27, 233, 235
    • and McKenna-McBride Commission, 179, 180, 181
    • and ownership of land, 136–137, 183, 222
    • and pass system, 67
    • and permit system, 99–103
    • and political decisions, 128, 141, 142–143, 144
    • and Special Joint Committee of 1927, 193–194
    • and war veterans, 227–231

F

  • fish/fishing, 38–40, 44, 57, 101, 109, 166, 181, 190
  • Fleetham, T. J., 117, 199, 203
  • food sources: caloric intake, 40
    • DIA withholding of, 69, 79–80, 105, 111, 122–123
    • before European contact, 33, 38, 39, 40–41
    • in Kainai agreement, 208
    • and Siksika land negotiation, 215, 216–218
    • threat to withhold by DIA, 206–207
  • Forget, A.E., 103, 121
  • Foster, Hamar, 144
  • Foucault, Michel, 3–7
  • Fraser River fishery strikes, 57
  • Frideres, James, 10
  • Friends of the Indians in British Columbia, 169
  • Fulton, F.J., 183
  • fundraising ban, 194, 195
  • Fyffe, A.M., 211, 212

G

  • gender equality, 34. see also women
  • George, Alexander, 229
  • George, Baptiste, 181
  • George, Mary, 229
  • gold mining, 138
  • Goldfrank, Esther, 34
  • Good, Charles, 143
  • Gooderham, George, 104, 105, 108, 219
  • Gooderham, J.H., 116, 215, 216, 217, 218
  • Goodstoney, Jacob, 155
  • The Gradual Civilization Act, 45
  • The Gradual Enfranchisement Act, 45–46
  • Graham, W. M.: on failure of DIA, 129
    • and Greater Production scheme, 224–226
    • and Kainai reserve, 208–209
    • and land surrenders, 227
    • and pass system, 72–73
    • and Siksika land sale, 218–219
    • and war veterans, 227, 230
  • Greater Production Scheme, 208–209, 218–219, 224–226
  • Grandidier, C.J., 143
  • Grasse, P.L., 53–54
  • Great Britain, 44–45
  • guns, 34–35, 78–79

H

  • Harper, J.M., 182
  • Harris, Douglas, 101
  • on Harris, Isaac: as Indian policeman, 85, 107
    • and Long Lake, 126, 174, 175, 176, 178
  • and work for McKenna-McBride Commission, 181, 184, 186–187
  • Haynes, W.R., 213
  • health care, 168
  • Henderson, James Youngblood, 235
  • Herchmer, W.M., 54–55, 65, 68–69, 87–88
  • Higginson, T.S., 102
  • Hildebrandt, Walter, 81–82
  • Holbrook, Henry, 141
  • Holt, Thomas, 11–12
  • horses, 34–35, 38
  • housing, 112, 113–114
  • Howe, Joseph, 81, 88
  • Hudson’s Bay Company, 138, 145
  • Hungry Wolf, Beverly, 33–34
  • hunting rights, 56–57, 70
  • Hussey, Frederick, 84

I

  • imperialism (see also colonialism): implied in Treaty 7, 158
    • informal means of, 7–8
    • localized, 26
    • and NWMP show of force, 81–82
    • and surveillance, 90–91
    • and violence, 9
    • of western science and land surveys, 4, 135–136, 185
  • Indian Act: of 1876, 46, 47
    • and consent, 221, 225, 228
    • and fundraising ban, 194, 195
    • and permit system, 99
    • and powers of Indian agents, 105
    • and reinforcing War Measures Act, 208
    • suspension of, 144, 189
  • Indian agents (see also Department of Indian Affairs) (DIA): and annual reports, 115–117
    • in BC, 107–108
    • discretionary power of, 104–105
    • duties of, 108–110, 114–115, 121–122
    • influences on hiring of, 122–123
    • of Kamloops-Okanagan Agency, 117–120
    • surveillance of, 104, 105–106
    • of Treaty 7 region, 121
    • wages of, 122
  • Indian Lands Settlement Act (BC), 189, 191
  • Indian police, 85–89
  • Indian Reserve Commission, 43–44, 48
  • Indian Rights Association, 170
  • intemperance, charges of, 125–126, 174, 176
  • Irvine, A.G., 61–63, 106, 213–214
  • Irwin, Archibald: as DIA agent, 97, 107, 117–118
    • and election of Chiefs, 126
    • and logging permits, 102–103
    • and Long Lake sale and surrender, 173–174, 175–176
    • Isipaymilt, Charley, 170

J

  • Jarvis, E.W., 70
  • Johnson, William, 44
  • Joint Reserve Commission, 144–145, 149–152, 161–162
  • Jones, Dorothy, 156
  • Jones, R., 90
  • Judicial Committee of the Privy Council (JCPC), 171, 188, 192, 194

K

  • Kainai: and agriculture, 107
    • and disease, 43
    • Blood, 65–66, 80, 87, election of Chiefs, 125–126
    • and Greater Production scheme, 225–226
    • and pass system, 65, 66
    • population, 96
    • relations with DIA, 94, 96
    • relations with NWMP, 78, 79–80
    • and reserve policy, 55
    • resistance to reserve reduction, 203–210
    • and Treaty 7, 153, 156, 157, 204
    • war veterans, 230
    • and women, 33–34
  • Karr, Clarence, 139
  • Kelly, Peter, 188, 192, 193
  • Kennedy, Dan, 32
  • Kennedy, John, 173, 174–175, 176, 177, 178
  • Kilbourn, F.A., 218
  • King, W.L.M., 192, 209
  • kinship networks, 39, 41
  • Klein, Alan, 34–35 Kootenay Plains reserve, 198–200
  • Ktunaxa, 38, 82
  • Kwakwaka’wakw, 76

L

  • Laird, David: and consent, 221
    • and Kainai, 125, 126, 204, 205
    • and Siksika, 214
    • and Treaty 7, 146, 147, 157, 158, 199
  • Lakota, 146
  • land (see also reserves): cultural view of, 135–136, 185
    • expropriation of, by Euro-Canadians, 41, 136–138
    • First Nations’ connection to, 29–30
    • spiritual significance of, 32
    • surveying of, 134–136
    • takeovers by DIA, 126
    • transfer of, in Treaty 7, 47–48, 156, 157
  • Land Amendment Act (BC), 134
  • Larner, John, 32, 155, 198
  • Larue, Elie, 190
  • Laurier, Wilfrid, 41, 170–171, 188
  • Leacock, Stephen, 21–22 League of Indians in Canada, 200
  • Left Hand, Chief, 126
  • Lenihan, James, 97, 149
  • Levern, Jean-Louis, 113, 217
  • Lewis, Oscar, 34
  • liberalism (see also exclusionary liberalism): and ability to mask primary objectives, 132–133
    • and colonial attitudes, 233–234
    • effect of,on First Nations, 13–16, 26–27, 231, 232–236
    • and law enforcement, 84
    • major precepts of, 11–13
    • recent practice of, 25–26
    • and surveillance, 90–91
  • Linley, Tom, 176
  • Little Bear, Leroy, 32
  • Logan, Baptiste, 85, 126, 174, 176
  • logging, 100–101, 102, 105
  • Long Lake sale and surrender, 173–178
  • Looy, A.J., 104
  • Louie, Casto, 150, 176, 178
  • Louie, Celia, 74
  • Lucas, Samuel, 53, 68, 69, 105, 113, 121
  • Lutz, John, 17
  • Lytton, E.B., 139

M

  • Macdonald, John A.: and DIA in BC, 97, 162
    • and farm instructors, 106
    • and First Nations’ leadership, 124
    • and hiring Indian Police, 85, 87
    • and NWMP, 58, 59, 82
    • and pass system, 61–62, 64, 66
    • as SGIA, 213
    • on splitting up Blackfoot, 203–204
    • on Tsuu T’ina, 200
  • Macdonald, K.C., 118, 170
  • Macdowall, D.A., 180, 183–184
  • Maclean, John, 155, 227, 228
  • Macleod, J.F., 90, 146, 153
  • Macleod, Norman, 106
  • Macpherson, D. G., 151
  • Macpherson, Inspector, 81
  • Malcolm’s Western Canneries, 214
  • Mallon, Florencia, 6–7
  • Manuel, George, 25, 77
  • Many Dust, Chief, 126
  • Many Wounds, 105
  • Mara, John A., 149
  • Markle, J.A.: influence of, 220
    • and Kainai, 125, 204, 205, 206–207
    • and Piikani, 210–212
    • and Siksika, 112, 214–216, 217–218
    • and Tsuu T’ina, 202
  • Martin-Maguire, Peggy, 137, 173, 220, 221
  • Marxism, 2–3
  • McBride, Richard, 171, 179. see also McKenna-McBride Commission
  • McBryan, Alexander, 151
  • McCord, W.C., 105
  • McDougall, George, 91, 155
  • McDougall, John: on failure of DIA, 127
    • as First Nations’ emissary, 168–169
    • on Indian agents, 105
    • and Kainai, 204–205
    • and Long Lake sale, 175–176
    • and Nakoda, 199
    • and P. L. Grasse, 53–54
    • and Treaty 7, 155
    • and Tsuu T’ina, 202
    • works for DIA, 54, 55, 167–169, 199, 202, 204–205
  • McGibbon, Inspector, 113
  • McGill, Harold, 96
  • McIllree, J.H., 65, 70
  • McKay, Ian, 134
  • McKay, J.W., 111–112
  • McKenna, J.A.J., 112, 178, 179, 180, 201
  • McKenna-McBride Commission, 179–192, 194
  • McKinlay, Commissioner, 149, 152
  • McLean, George, 228–229
  • McLean, J.D., 101, 212
  • McLeod, Colin, 205, 211, 212
  • McNeill, A.J., 202
  • Means, Russell, 2
  • media: coverage of First Nations’ resistance, 170
    • defends reduction of reserves, 197–198, 200–201
    • and DIA, 147
    • and Joint Reserve Commission, 150–151
    • and McKenna-McBride Commission, 182–183
    • and permit system, 100
    • portrayal of NWMP-First Nations relations, 68
    • warning of First Nations’ trouble, 163
  • medicine bundles, 35
  • Megraw, A., 178, 227, 228–229
  • Mehta, Uday, 12
  • Meighan, Arthur, 190, 209, 224, 225, 226–227, 231
  • Métis, 147
  • Michel, Pierre, 126, 174, 176
  • Middleton, Frederick, 63
  • Mill, John Stuart, 11–12
  • Miner, Bill, 177
  • mineral rights, 166, 200, 202, 206, 214
  • missionaries: cooperation with authorities, 54–55, 155, 167–169, 213
    • defense of First Nations’ morals, 113
    • and Greater Production scheme, 226
    • and reduction of First Nations’ reserves, 167–169
    • and Siksika land sale, 217, 219
    • and surveillance, 52–53
    • and Treaty 7, 155
  • Moberly, Walter, 140
  • Moody, R.C., 139
  • Moral and Social Reform Council of Canada, 171 Mormons, 55
  • Morris, Alexander, 49, 81, 147
  • Mountain Horse, Albert, 230
  • Mountain Horse, Joe, 230
  • Mountain Horse, Mike, 94, 230
  • Mountain Horse, Sikski, 230
  • Murdoch, George, 83–84

N

  • Nakoda: and DIA agents, 96
    • and DIA-missionary dispute, 53–54
    • extent ofterritory, 33
    • and fight for Kootenay Plains reserve, 198–200
    • history before European contact, 31–32
    • and leadership, 35–36; population, 96
    • and Treaty 7, 155, 156
  • Nakota, 31–32
  • Narcisse, Chief, 181
  • Nash, Henry, 122–123
  • nation building, 21–22
  • National Policy, 59
  • Neale, Superintendent, 66, 90, 153
  • Nevitt, R.B., 81
  • Newcombe, E.L., 193
  • Newnham, J.A., 226
  • Neylan, Susan, 169
  • Nez Percé, 146
  • Nisga’a, 170, 188
  • Nisquamlth, Chief, 140, 150
  • Nk’ Mip, 181
  • Nkamaplix Okanagan, 173–178
  • Nlha7kápmx, 41, 162, 170
  • North American Indian Brotherhood, 195
  • North Axe, 66
  • North Peigans, 66
  • North West Rebellion, 63–64, 80–81
  • NWMP (North West Mounted Police): in Alberta, 57
    • and Blackfoot, 80, 84
    • call for bigger force, 213–214
    • and churches, 54–55
    • coercion with DIA on pass system, 68–73
    • conflict with DIA, 77–79, 211, 212
    • and hiring Indian Police, 81, 85–89
    • informal imperialism of, 81–82
    • and Kainai, 78, 79–80; mandate, 59
    • mythic status of, 58
    • number of men in, 83–84
    • origins of, 58–59
    • and pass system, 61–62, 63, 64, 65–66
    • and permit system, 101
    • support of business, 56, 80–81
    • surveillance by, 56, 59–60, 66
    • surveillance of, 89–90
    • and Treaty 7, 59, 81, 146–147, 153–155
    • works with DIA, 59–60, 81, 125–126, 205

O

  • Okanagan: and disease, 43–44
    • economy of, 37–39, 41
    • election of Chiefs, 126
    • history before European contact, 36, 37
    • and Indian Police, 85
    • and Long Lake sale and surrender, 173–178
    • at McKenna-McBride Commission, 182, 185, 186
    • political leadership, 41–42
    • reduction of reserves, 167, 186
    • relations with DIA, 107, 118
    • resistance to reserve policy, 146, 149–150, 170, 173, 188
    • war service of, 223
  • Old Moon, Chief, 126
  • Oliver, Frank: and Kainai, 204
    • on liberal Canada, 14–15
    • as Minister, 133, 199, 202
    • as MP, 100, 178, 187–188
    • and Piikani, 211, 212
    • as SGIA, 1
  • O’Meara, Arthur E.: and 1927 Special Joint Committee hearings, 94, 193, 195
    • blamed for agitation, 190
    • as First Nations’ advocate, 54, 84, 171, 172, 192
  • Only Kill, 90
  • O’Reilly, Peter, 162–164

P

  • Paget, F.H., 106–107
  • panopticon (see also surveillance): Bentham’s theory of, 4–7
    • and division of land, 136
    • and machinery of surveillance, 59, 90, 104, 114–115, 134–136
  • pass system: combined DIA/NWMP
    • coercion on, 68–73
    • considered in BC, 76
    • manuevring around illegality of, 65–68
    • origins of, 60–64
    • and restrictions from towns, 71–72
  • paternalism (see also racism): and Anglo-Canadian morality, 111
    • and land ownership, 136, 183, 202, 206
    • of liberal society, 15
    • and permit system, 100, 103
    • and war benefits, 228–230
  • Patrick, A.P., 198
  • Patullo, Duff, 189
  • Paull, Andrew, 193
  • Pedley, Frank: conflict with NWMP, 79–80
  • on First Nations’ culture, 11
    • and Long Lake, 174, 175
    • and missionaries, 52
    • and pass system, 74
    • and Siksika, 216–217
    • supports reserve reduction, 166, 202
  • permit system, 99–103
  • Perrin, Bishop, 169
  • Perry, A. Bowen, 71, 78
  • Pidcock, R.H., 75, 76
  • Piegan Frank, 89
  • Pierre, Sam, 182
  • Pierrish, Francois, 181
  • Piikani: and DIA agents, 96, 122–123
    • and disease, 43
    • election of Chiefs, 125
    • and logging, 100–101
    • and place of women, 34
    • population, 96
    • resistance to reserve reduction, 210–213
    • and Treaty 7, 156
  • Pinkerton’s Detective Agency, 84, 172
  • Pizzorno, Alessandro, 236
  • plants, 33, 40–41
  • Pocklington, William, 64, 65, 66, 67, 105, 122, 210
  • potatoes, 40, 41
  • Powell, Israel Wood: and G. M. Sproat, 162
    • on Indian agents, 107–108
    • and reduction of Indian reserves, 163–164
    • and reserve policy, 143–144, 151
    • as superintendent, 41, 97
    • on surveillance, 52
  • Powers, J.W., 85
  • Primrose, Superintendent, 126, 205
  • private police forces, 84
  • Provencher, J.A.N., 132–133, 146

R

  • Rabinow, Paul, 3
  • racism (see also paternalism): of BC settlers, 151–152
    • of Indian agents, 119–120, 210
    • of media, 200–201
    • as part of Canadian society, 23
  • Ramsden, J.G., 107, 118, 175–176
  • ranchers/ranching: by First Nations, 129, 161–162, 181
    • and Indian Police, 87
    • and Kainai reserve, 206
    • and Tsuu T’ina reserve, 202
  • RCMP, 57–58, 83. see also NWMP (North West Mounted Police)
  • Red Crow, Chief, 67, 79, 125, 154
  • Reed, Hayter: and abolishing tribal system, 124
    • on agent Nash, 123
    • on cleanliness of First Nations’ houses, 114
    • on DIA deceit, 95
    • and farm instructors, 107
    • and guns, 79
    • and Indian Police, 87
    • and pass system, 63–64, 66, 68, 69–70
    • and reducing reserve size, 214
    • on surveillance, 52, 60
  • Rendle, J.E., 76
  • reserves (see also resistance): as aid to colonialism, 8–9
    • attempt to reduce Kainai, 203–210
    • attempt to reduce Piikani, 210–213
    • DIA policy of, 49–50, 136, 137
    • early BC policy for, 139–143
    • early intrusions into, 137–138, 140, 141
    • incompatibility with land surveys, 134–135
    • and Joint Reserve Commission, 144–145, 149–152
    • Long Lake sale and surrender, 173–178
    • maps, x–xi;
    • and McKenna-McBride Commission, 179–188
    • missionaries role in reducing, 167–169
    • motivation for reducing, 219–221
    • Nakoda fight for Kootenay Plains, 198–200
    • and policy of disenfranchisement, 48–50
    • promised in text of Treaty 7, 156–157
    • reducing size of, in BC, 163–166, 185–186
    • reducing size of, in Treaty 7 region, 197–198, 200–203, 213–219
    • reductions to, in WWI, 223–224
    • as reformatory strategy, 9, 15–16
    • reversion of land from, 165, 179
    • size of, in BC, 161–162, 164–165
  • residential schools, 228
  • resistance: to alienation of land, 159
    • by Blackfoot, 148
    • and fundraising ban, 195
    • government reaction to, 143–144, 170–171, 232
    • by Kainai to reserve reduction, 203–210
    • to liberal rule, 234–235; localized, 6, 222, 235
    • to McKenna-McBride Commission report, 188–189, 190–192
    • as natural corollary of power, 5–6
    • by Nisga’a, 170, 188
    • by Okanagan, 146, 149–150, 170, 173, 188
    • by Piikani, 210–213
    • to reserve policy in BC, 143–144, 149–151, 170–173
    • by Secwepemc, 143–144, 146, 150, 170, 188
    • by settlers, 151–152
    • by Siksika, 217– 218, 219
    • through missionaries, 168–169
    • by Tsuu T’ina, 201–203
  • Riel Rebellion of 1870, 99
  • Roche, W.J., 188
  • Ross, Alexander, 38
  • Ross, H.C., 174
  • Royal Proclamation of 1763, 45, 46
  • Ryan, Simon, 22, 135–136

S

  • Samek, Hana, 209–210, 221
  • sanitation, 112, 113–114
  • Schmidt, C. Pant, 73
  • Scollen, Constantine, 103
    • Scott, Duncan Campbell: and Anglo-Canadian morality, 110–111
    • and consent, 221
    • and denying First Nations information, 95
    • on DIA, 94, 99
    • on First Nations’ treaties, 231
    • and Greater Production scheme, 224–225
    • and Kainai reserve, 206, 207, 208, 209–210
    • and liberal ideals, 13, 14
    • and McKenna-McBride Commission report, 189, 190–191
    • on reserves, 49, 136
    • and Siksika reserve, 215, 216–217, 218–219
    • and soldier settlement, 226–227
    • at Special Joint Committee of 1927, 192–193
    • and Tsuu T’ina reserve, 201
    • and war veterans, 228, 231
  • scouts, 81, 85–86, 87–88
  • security, 221
  • Secwepemc: deposing of Chiefs, 102
    • and disease, 43–44
    • economy of, 38–39, 41
    • history before European contact, 36–37
    • and Indian agents, 73–74, 117, 118, 122, 123
    • and logging, 102
    • at McKenna-McBride Commission, 181, 182–183, 185, 186
    • political leadership, 41–42
    • reduction of reserves, 140, 167, 186, 227
    • resistance to reserve policy, 143–144, 146, 150, 170, 188
  • self-government, 45, 129, 236
  • settlers: in early BC, 138–139
    • and expropriation of land, 137
    • and Indian agents, 117–118, 121
    • and permit system, 100–101
    • population growth, 133–134
    • resistance to Indian reserves, 151–152
    • supported by government, 166, 195, 204
    • supported by McKenna-McBride Commission, 180–181, 182–183, 185, 187–188
    • supported by police, 80
  • Sexqeltqi’n, 119, 181
  • sexual mores, 110–113
  • Shaw, James A., 180
  • Shot on Both Sides, Chief, 207, 226
  • Sifton, Clifford, 103, 220
  • Siksika: and DIA agents, 96
    • and disease, 43
    • and Indian Police, 88
    • population, 96
    • and reduction of reserve, 213–219
    • relations with NWMP, 90
    • and reserve school policy, 54
    • and Treaty 7, 156
  • Silpahan, Francois, 102
  • Simons, Constable, 90
  • Sitting Bull, 146
  • smallpox, 43
  • Smart, James, 71, 100–101, 113
  • Smith, J.F.: on agent Irwin, 117
    • and First Nations’ resistance, 171
    • as Indian agent, 118–120, 122
    • at McKenna-McBride Commission, 182, 183
    • and morality of women, 112–113
    • and size of Indian agent areas, 108
    • and surveillance of women, 74
    • and war veterans, 228, 229
  • Smith, Trefor, 117
  • Smythe, Selby, 82
  • Snow, John, 35–36, 155
  • Soldier Settlement Act, 226–227
  • Special Joint Committee of the Senate and House of Commons (1927), 94–95, 192–195
  • spiritualism, 32, 33–34
  • Splats’in, 167
  • Springett, A.R., 66, 121
  • Sproat, G.M.: and First Nations’ politics, 124
    • and Joint Reserve Commission, 149–150, 152, 161–162
    • and land surveying, 134
    • and reserve policy, 144
    • on US reservations, 60–61
    • on women, 112
  • Spurr, David, 18
  • Starnes, Cortlandt, 79
  • Steele, S.B., 55, 62, 66, 79
  • Stevens, H.H., 95, 192, 193
  • Stewart, Charles, 225
  • Stocken, H.W. Gibbon, 217, 219
  • Stuart, John, 44
  • St’uxwtews, 122, 123
  • surveillance: by BCPP, 74–75
    • and colonialism, 17–18, 27
    • by DIA, 16–18, 52, 93–94, 96
    • extent of network, 1–2, 16–17, 234
    • failure of, 129
    • of First Nations’ houses, 113–114
    • of First Nations’ lawyers, 84, 172
    • by First Nations’ scouts and police, 84–89
    • of First Nations’ women, 74–75
    • of Indian agents, 104, 105–106
    • by J. McDougall, 167, 169
    • and land surveys, 136
    • mandated in Treaty 7, 157, 158
    • as means of controlling First Nations, 51–52
    • and missionaries, 52–53
    • by NWMP, 56, 59–60, 66
    • and panoptic machinery, 4–7, 59, 90, 104, 114–115, 134–136
    • in support of liberal expansion, 7, 90–91, 131
    • of police, 89–90
    • in Treaty 7 region, 197
    • and Treaty 7 signing, 156
  • Swinford, S., 107

T

  • Tait, John, 149
  • Tawhalst, Antoine, 181
  • Teit, James, 170, 188, 190
  • Tennant, Paul, 139, 192
  • Thomas, Mary, 84–85, 185
  • Thomson, Duane, 36
  • Thunder Chief, 125
  • Tims, J.W., 54
  • title, Aboriginal: BC-Canada agreement on, 158–159, 161
    • BC’s view of, 46–47, 133, 142–143, 148, 149, 171, 172
    • Canada’s view of, 136–137, 144–145
    • common view of, 183
    • First Nations’ desire for, 168, 171, 188
    • in McKenna-McBride Commission, 180, 188, 191
    • and Special Joint Committee of 1927, 192, 193, 194
  • Tonasket, Louie, 178
  • Tootoosis, John, 100
  • trade, 38–39
  • Treaty 1, 146
  • Treaty 2, 146
  • Treaty 7: annuity payments, 43
    • background to signing of, 146–147
    • conditions of signing, 152–156, 204
    • details of agreement, 86, 98, 156–158
    • and land transfer, 47–48
    • negotiations with Nakoda, 198–199
    • NWMP part in, 59, 81, 146–147, 153–155
    • seen by government as success, 131–132
    • used as comparison by BC First Nations, 192
  • Treaty 8, 192
  • Treaty 7 region: and DIA agents, 96–97, 98–99
    • and effect of liberalism on, 232
    • NakodaDIA negotiations, 199–200
    • pass system in, 60–73
    • settlement of, 145
    • Trutch, J.W.: as Confidential Agent at Victoria, 162–163
    • and First Nations’ policy, 139–140, 140–141, 142, 148–149
    • as lieutenant governor, 97
  • Tsilhqot’in, 38
  • Tsuu T’ina: and census taking, 117
    • and DIA agents, 96, 105, 121
    • and disease, 43
    • extent of territory, 32–33
    • fight to keep reserve, 200–203
    • history before European contact, 31
    • and leadership, 35
    • and pass system, 62, 68, 69
    • population, 96
    • and Treaty 7, 156
  • Turner, Dale, 235–236
  • Turriff, J. G., 119

U

  • United States: compared to Canada in treatment of First Nations, 131–132, 192, 221
    • cost of native policy, 82
    • fears of Indian resistance, 149
    • reservation system, 60–61
    • role in origin of pass system, 61
    • role in Treaty 7, 146, 147
    • and signed treaties, 152

V

  • Vagrant Act, 62, 63, 74–75, 112
    • Vankoughnet, Lawrence: and duties of Indian agents, 110
    • and First Nations’ leadership, 124
    • and Indian Police, 87, 88
    • and pass system, 61–62, 64, 65
    • and surveillance, 60
  • veterans, WWI, 226–231
  • Vowell, Arthur W., 74, 102, 116, 164, 165–166, 173

W

  • Wadsworth, T.P., 106, 112, 117
  • Walkem, George, 142, 162
  • Walsh, J. M., 78
  • War Measures Act, 208, 225
  • watchmen, 84–85
  • wealth and status, 35, 40
  • Wesley band, 32
  • Wetmore, E.L., 180, 182, 184
  • White, Fred: conflict with DIA, 78, 79–80
    • and Indian Police, 87, 88
    • and pass system, 62, 65, 69, 70, 71–72
    • and surveillance, 59–60
  • White, Nathaniel W., 180
  • Whitecalf, Chief, 153
  • Williams, C.E., 151
  • Wilson, R.N., 107, 126, 205, 208–209
  • women: authority of, 33–34
    • economic contributions of, 33, 241n26
    • enforcing domestic duties of, 113–114
    • enforcing morality of, 112–113
    • and politics, 42
    • restriction of movement of, 75–76
    • surveillance of, 74–75
  • Wood, Wentworth, 102
  • Woolford, Andrew, 236
  • World War I, 223–231

X

  • Xgat’temc, 38

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