Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1 Homeland: The Area and the People -- 2 'A Particularly Authoritarian Organization': The Administrative Context -- 3 'It Did Not Matter Who Was Chief': Band Councils -- 4 'Easy to Trick People by Putting Words on Paper': Treaties and Aboriginal Rights -- 5 'Economy Must Be Observed': Assistance Measures -- 6 'Always and Only an Indian': Assimilation in Practice -- Conclusion -- Appendix: Treaties -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W
Summary
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
