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In 1944, after the Piercy report described the severe obstacles to education faced by Métis people, the Saskatchewan government assumed responsibility for educating all Métis and non-status Indian children.

There are many good books and articles on Aboriginal issues in Saskatchewan and Canada. The following is a selected list for further reading.

Adams, Howard. Prison of Grass: Canada From the Native Point of View. Rev. ed. Saskatoon: Fifth House, 1989.

Asch, Michael. Home and Native Land: Aboriginal Rights and the Canadian Constitution. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 1993.

Barron, F. Laurie. Walking in Indian Moccasins: The Native Policies of Tommy Douglas and the CCF. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 1997

Barron, F. Laurie. "A summary of Federal Indian Policy in the Canadian West, 1867-1984." Native Studies Review 1 (1984): 28-39.

Bear, Shirley, and others. "And they told us their stories": A Book of Indian stories. Edited by Jack Funk and Gordon Lobe. Saskatoon: Saskatoon District Tribal Council, 1991.

Boldt, Menno. Surviving As Indians: The Challenge of Self-Government. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1993

Bourgeault, R. "Metis History." In One Sky Information Kit, edited by Bill Robb with the assistance of Walter Davis, Leeanne Hurlburt, and Laurie Thompson. Rev. ed. Saskatoon: One Sky, 1983.

Brizinski, Peggy. Knots in a String: An Introduction to Native Studies in Canada. 2nd ed. Saskatoon: University Extension Press, 1993.

Buckley, Helen. From Wooden Ploughs to Welfare: Why Indian Policy Failed in the Prairie Provinces. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1992

Cardinal, Harold. The Rebirth of Canada's Indians. Edmonton: Hurtig Publishers, 1977.

Cardinal, Harold. The Unjust Society: The Tragedy of Canada's Indians. Edmonton: Hurtig Publishers, 1969.

Carter, Sarah. Lost Harvests: Prairie Reserve Farmers and Government Policy. Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 1990.

Dyck, Noel. What is the 'Indian Problem': Tutelage and Resistance in Canadian Indian Administration. St. John's, Nfld.: Institute of Social and Economic Research, Memorial University of Newfoundland, 1991

Frideres, James S. and L.E. Krosenbrink-Gelissen. Aboriginal Peoples in Canada: Contemporary Conflicts. 5th ed. Scarborough: Prentice Hall, 1998.

Frideres, James S. "The Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples: The Route to Self-Government?" Canadian Journal of Native Studies XVI, no. 2 (1996): 247-266.

Hylton, John H., ed. Aboriginal Self-Government in Canada: Current Trends and Issues. 2nd ed. Saskatoon: Purich Publishing, 1999.

Little Bear, Leroy, Menno Boldt and J. Anthony Long, eds. Pathways to Self-Determination: Canadian Indians and the Canadian State. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1984.

McNab, David T., ed. Earth, Water, Air and Fire: Studies in Canadian Ethnohistory. Waterloo: Wilfred Laurier University Press, 1998.

Miller, J.R., ed. Sweet Promises: A Reader on Indian-White Relations in Canada. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1991.

Morin, Gerald. "Metis Perspective on Justice and Aboriginal Peoples." In Continuing Poundmaker and Riel's Quest: Presentations Made at a Conference on Aboriginal Peoples and Justice. Compiled by Richard Gosse, James Youngblood Henderson, and Roger Carter. Saskatoon: Purich Publishing, 1994.

Miller, J.R. Skyscrapers Hide the Heavens: A History of Indian-White Relations in Canada. Rev. ed. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1991.

Pitsula, James M. "The Thatcher Government in Saskatchewan and Treaty Indians, 1964-1971: The Quiet Revolution." Saskatchewan History 48, no. 1 (1996): 3-17.

Pitsula, James M. "The CCF Government and the Formation of the Union of Saskatchewan Indians." Prairie Forum 19, no. 2 (1994): 131-151.

Pitsula, James M. "The Saskatchewan CCF Government and Treaty Indians, 1944-64." Canadian Historical Review LXXV, no. 1 (1994): 21-52.

Ponting, J. Rick, ed. Arduous Journey: Canadian Indians and Decolonization. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1986.

Ponting, J. Rick, ed. First Nations in Canada: Perspectives on Opportunity, Empowerment, and Self-Determination. Toronto: McGraw-Hill Ryerson, 1997

Ponting, J. Rick, Roger Gibbons, and Andrew J. Siggner. Out of Irrelevance: A Socio-Political Introduction to Indian Affairs in Canada. Toronto: Butterworths, 1980.

Satzewich, Victor N. and Terry Wotherspoon. First Nations: Race, Class, and Gender Relations. Scarborough, Ont.: Nelson Canada, 1993.

Titley, E. Brian. A Narrow Vision: Duncan Campbell Scott and the Administration of Indian Affairs. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 1986.

Weaver, Sally M. "Indian Policy in the New Conservative Government, Part I: The Nielsen Task Force of 1985." Native Studies Review 2, no.1 (1986): 1-43.

Weaver, Sally M. "Indian policy in the New Conservative Government, Part II: The Nielsen Task Force in the Context of Recent Policy Initiatives." Native Studies Review 2, no. 2 (1986): 1-45.

Weaver, Sally M. Making Canadian Indian Policy: The Hidden Agenda, 1968-70. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1981.

York, Geoffrey. The Dispossessed: Life and Death in Native Canada. London: Vintage, 1990.

 

 



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