A narrow vision : Duncan Campbell Scott and the administration of Indian affairs in Canada

Generally considered a sympathetic portrayer of the Canadian Indian, Duncan Campbell Scott revealed in his writings his real beliefs about the conditions and future of Canada's Native people. During his long and turbulent tenure as Deputy Superintendent General of Indian Affairs, his response to challenges such as the making of treatises in northern Ontario, land claims in British Columbia, and the status of the Six Nations underscored his beliefs that the Indians did not have any legitimate grievances and that the Department knew best. A chronicle of Duncan Campbell Scott's career in the Department of Indian Affairs and an evaluation of the developments in native health, education, and welfare between 1880 and 1932. Not designed as a biography of Scott, the book assesses EuroCanadian thinking on aboriginal rights at the turn of the century. Includes a chapter on landclaims in British Columbia. In A Narrow Vision, Brian Titley chronicles the career of Confederation poets Duncan Campbell Scott in the Department of Indian Affairs between 1880 and 1932.