A Narrow Vision

Duncan Campbell Scott and the Administration of Indian Affairs in Canada

By Brian Titley
Categories: Regional & Cultural Studies, Canadian Studies, History, Indigenous History, Canadian History, Political Science, Indigenous Studies
Publisher: UBC Press
Paperback : 9780774804202, 256 pages, January 1986
Ebook (EPUB) : 9780774843249, 256 pages, November 2011
Ebook (PDF) : 9780774854832, 256 pages, October 2007
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Table of contents

Acknowledgements

Introduction

1 Indian Administration: Origins and Development

2 The Poet and the Indians

3 General Aspects of Policy and Administration

4 The Treaty Maker

5 Schooling and Civilization

6 Indian Political Organizations

7 The Six Nations’ Status Case

8 Land Claims in British Columbia

9 “Senseless Drumming and Dancing”

10 The Ambitions of Commissioner Graham

Conclusion

Notes

Selected Bibliography

Index

Description

In A Narrow Vision, Brian Titley chronicles Scott's career in the Department of Indian Affairs and evaluates developments in Native health, education, and welfare between 1880 and 1932. He shows how Scott's response to challenges such as the making of treaties in northern Ontario, land claims in British Columbia, and the status of the Six Nations caused persistent difficulties and made Scott's term of office a turbulent one. Scott could never accept that Natives had legitimate grievances and held adamantly to the view that his department knew best.

Reviews

An important book ... puts the problems facing Canada's native population into better perspective. It should be required reading for all members of the Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development.

- Allan Levine

Essential reading for all those trying to understand the evolution of Indian administration in Canada ... does much to illuminate the themes of continuity and change within the Indian Affairs Department.

- Douglas Leighton

Titley has done Canadian scholarship a great service by opening up this area of scholarship to Canadian historians. It is indeed a fine book.

- David McNab