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  1. Contents
  2. Maps
  3. Introduction: Where Histories Meet
  4. Part One: The Toronto Carrying Place
    1. Toronto’s Indigenous Name
    2. Deep Time in the Humber River Watershed
    3. Trade and Colonial Rivalries
  5. Founding York
    1. Early British Treaties
    2. Turning Indigenous Territory into Private Property
    3. Indigenous-Settler Encounters
    4. Settlers on Indigenous Lands
  6. Changing Relationships
    1. The War of 1812 and Its Aftermath
    2. The Postwar Fur Trade along Yonge Street
    3. Deforestation, Farming, and Milling
  7. The Civilizational Agenda
    1. Indigenous Christianity
    2. Yonge Street Camp Meetings
    3. The Credit Mission
    4. The Coldwater and the Narrows Settlement
    5. “Progress,” Setbacks, and Strategies for Self-Sufficiency
  8. Agency in Times of Struggle
    1. The Quest for Secure Land Tenure
    2. Defending the Crown
    3. Surviving, Rebuilding, Adapting, Resisting
    4. From Civilization to Assimilation
    5. Black Wampum
  9. New Strategies for Dark Times
    1. The Indian Act and the Great Council Fire
    2. After 1876
    3. Conclusion: Confronting History, (Re)making History
  10. Acknowledgements
  11. Selected Bibliography
  12. Map Credits
  13. Notes
  14. Index

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Indigenous and Settler Encounters
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