Indian Education in Canada, Volume 1

Jean Barman is a lecturer in history at the University of British Columbia. Yvonne Hebert is assistant professor of education at the University of Calgary. Don McCaskill is a professor and chairman of the native studies department at Trent University.

• Foreword / Chief John SnowPreface1 The Legacy of the Past: An Overview / Jean Barman, Yvonne Hebert, Don McCaskill2 Micmac Literacy and Cognitive Assimilation / Marie Battiste3 Education for Francization: The Case of New France in the Seventeenth Century / Cornelius J. Jaenen4 "No Blanket to be Worn in School": The Education of Indians in Nineteenth-Century Ontario / J. Donald Wilson5 Creating Little Dominions within the Dominion: Early Catholic Indian Schools in Saskatchewan and British Columbia / Jacqueline Gresko6 Separate and Unequal: Indian and White Girls at All Hallows School, 1884-1920 / Jean Barman7 A Very Imperfect Means of Education: Indian Day Schools in the Yukon Territory, 1890-1955 / Ken Coates8 The Changing Experience of Indian Residential Schooling: Blue Quills, 1931-1970 / Diane PerssonNotes on ContributorsIndex

Much of the material is original and does offer insight into an area of study about which relatively little has been published. The content is useful both in its own right and as a frame of reference for recent developments in Indian Education. - F. Laurie Barron (The Musk-Ox)