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Canada's first nations : a history of founding peoples from earliest times
Walter C. Koerner Library, University of British Columbia

2002
Book > History
Creators
Dickason, Olive Patricia
Description
"This is a comprehensive history of Canada's original inhabitants . . . . Using an interdisciplinary approach that combines history, anthropology, and archaeology, Dickason tells the story of the more than 50 nations in the territory that is now Canada, beginning with the arrival of people in North America from across the Bering Strait many thousands of years ago."

More Information

ISBN
019541652X
Statement of Responsibility
Olive Patricia Dickason.
Edition
3rd ed.
Publication Information
Don Mills, Ont. : Oxford University Press
Physical Description
xvi, 560 p. : illustrations
Notes
Earlier editions available.
More recent edition available.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Pt. I. At the Beginning -- 1. And the People Came -- 2. Settling In -- 3. Metropolises and Intercultural Contacts -- 4. Canada When Europeans Arrived -- Pt. II. Outside World Intrudes --  5. Inuit and Beothuk -- 6. On the Eastern Edge of the Mainland -- 7. People of the Sunrise -- 8.  Hurons, Five Nations, and Europeans -- 9. Huronia's Loss Is the Bay's Gain -- 10. Some Amerindian-Colonial Wars -- 11. Amerindians in the French New World -- Pt. III. Spread Across the Continent -- 12. Amerindians in a Shifting World -- 13. On the Great Plains -- 14. Westward and Northward -- Pt. IV. Towards New Horizons -- 15. Turntable of 1812-14 -- 16. Canadian Aboriginal World in the Early Nineteenth Century -- 17. Pre-Confederation Administration in the Canadas -- 18. Many Fronts within Confederation -- 19. First Numbered Treaties, Police, and the Indian Act -- Pt. V. Into the Contemporary World -- 20. As the Old Way Fades, the New Looks Bleak -- 21. Time of Troubles, Time of Repression -- 22. Leading to an Administrative Shift -- 23. Canadian Courts and Aboriginal Rights -- 24. First Nations at Home and Abroad -- 25. Development Heads North -- 26. Social Fact and Developmental Theory -- 27. Rocky Road to Self-Government -- 28. Coercion, Standoffs, an Agreement, and a Royal Commission. App.: National Historic Sites of Canada Commemorating Aboriginal History.
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