Description
The story of life on reserves after treaty is a story of power: the power of Indian Affairs. Indian agents controlled each and every aspect of life off and on reserve – the dreaded pass system and permission slips had to sell farm produce, or not as it suited the agents; the instructors whose job it used to be to develop into Indian hunters into farmers; the residential school system, and the questionable give up of reserve land. Yet, this book does not make a political observation. It does not pass judgement on the actions of the government, its agents, or any individual else. In an ever-respectful voice, this book relates things as they were, and points to the many successes of Indian peoples regardless of the many challenges they faced.