00000nam 2200000za 4500 9.845365 CaOODSP 20221107152943 cr ||||||||||| 171011s1990 onc #ob f000 0 eng d CaOODSP eng n-cn--- n-us--- R32-338/1990E-PDF Allen, Robert S. The great father [electronic resource] : a short history of the United States Bureau of Indian Affairs and American Indian policy; with some comparisons of the attitudes of Canada and the U.S. toward native people / Robert S. Allen. [Ottawa?] : Treaties and Historical Research Centre, Comprehensive Claims : The Deputies' Council for Change, 1990. ii, 16, [2] p. "February 1990." Title from cover. Digitized edition from print [produced by Indigenous and Northern Affairs Canada]. Includes bibliographical references. "The pristine isolation - the dreamtime - for the aboriginal or native people of North America was abruptly and permanently shattered with the arrival and settlement of Europeans. From the moment of that first encounter, the native people were awakened to the cold reality that the dawn of a Christian civilization was to break upon them. The relationship between the native people and these technologically dominant newcomers has fluctuated ever since from the benign to the intolerable"--Historical background, p. 2. gccst Aboriginal peoples gccst Canadian history gccst Government policy Treaties and Historical Research Centre (Canada) Deputies' Council for Change (Canada) Canada. Indian and Northern Affairs Canada. PDF 647 KB https://publications.gc.ca/collections/collection_2018/aanc-inac/R32-338-1990-eng.pdf