Paper talk: a history of libraries, print culture, and aboriginal peoples in Canada before 1960

Contexts and foundations. Placing this history: literacy, books, libraries, and First Peoples

The nineteenth century. "Read, write, and worship God daily" The Missinary's tools: the written word, books, and education

First quarter of the twentieth century. Books in the schools and Aboriginal literary initiatives

1930 through 1960. Community development, philanthropy, and educational neglect: Aboriginal and non- Aboriginal literary perspectives.