A Fatherly Eye
For more than a century, government policy towards Aboriginal peoples in Canada was shaped by paternalistic attitudes and an ultimate goal of assimilation. Indeed, remnants of that thinking still linger today, more than thirty years after protests against the White Paper of 1969 led to reconsideration Canada''s ''Indian'' policy. In A Fatherly Eye, historian Robin Brownlie examines how paternalism...
For more than a century, government policy towards Aboriginal peoples in Canada was shaped by paternalistic attitudes and an ultimate goal of assimilation. Indeed, remnants of that thinking still linger today, more than thirty years after protests against the White Paper of 1969 led to reconsideration Canada''s ''Indian'' policy. In A Fatherly Eye, historian Robin Brownlie examines how paternalism...
