Floating Voice: Duncan Campbell Scott and the Literature of Treaty 9"The writing of Duncan Campbell Scott has long represented a sympathetic understanding of Canada's Native peoplesÑperhaps mistakenly so, however, as in his work as a bureaucrat, Scott put in place white paternalistic policies that Native peoples resist to this day. Floating Voice examines Scott's contradictions, with renewed consideration of his best ÒIndianÓ fiction and poetry ." |
Contents
A Dance of Molecules | 3 |
of Land Portage Root River 1905 PA143064 | 4 |
The Summers of 1905 | 20 |
Treaty 9 Commissioners 1905 PA59549 | 28 |
Big Canoe and Crew 1905 PA59516 | 35 |
Chief Espaniol Biscotasing 1906 PA43561 | 37 |
The Last of the Indian Treaties | 45 |
Jimmy Swain 1905 PA59538 | 53 |
Group at Lac Seul 1905 PA59501 | 160 |
A Scene at Lake Manitou | 174 |
Dying Boy Sketch by Edmund Morris | 176 |
Indian Family Abitibi 1906 PA59520 | 177 |
The Widow Frederick Abitibi 1906 PA59523 | 178 |
August 1810 | 189 |
Indian Girls Brunswick House 1906 PA59559 | 193 |
Indian Girls Brunswick House 1906 PA59563 | 195 |
The Man Family Relations | 67 |
Scott in | 89 |
The Habit of Superiority | 106 |
Fiction on Natives | 131 |
Daniel Wascowin 1905 PA59521 | 141 |
Hudsons Bay Co Post Abitibi 1905 PA59518 | 146 |
Powassans Drum | 155 |
Treaty 9 Commissioners Landing at Long Lake 1906 | 156 |
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