The Canadian Urban Indian in Southwestern Ontario
Abstract
There has been a recent surge of enthusiasm for and
interest in the Canadian Indian in the last five years.
Dr. Charles M. Johnston, Professor History at McMaster University
in Hamilton, Ontario, accounts this to the "obsession"
with 1967, Canada's Centennial year and to the emphasis
on ethnic development since World War II. Miss Kahn-Tineta
Horn, Caughnawaga, who speaks across Canada on the Canadian
Indian, takes credit in stimulating the interest. The writer
wonders if Canadians have stopped patting their own backs
for not having racial discrimination as the United States
does and finally looked in their own back yard at the
plight of their Indians.
Whatever the reasons, the interest is there and it
is hoped that this paper will answer some questions about
the Canadian Indian, raise more, and perhaps even stimulate
some action.