A concise history of Canada's first nations

Dickason, Olive Patricia 1920- (author.). Calder, Moira (adapter.).

Summary: "In the past, most histories of Canada began with the arrival of Europeans; the fact the land was already home to a multitude of peoples with their own rich and complex pasts was generally ignored. One of the first works to trace the stories of those nations, from the first peopling of the Americas to the most recent land-claim settlements, was Olive Patricia Dickason's award-winning Canada's First Nations: a history of founding peoples from earliest times. Through three editions, Professor Dickason has drawn on archaeology, anthropology, biology, sociology, and political science as well as history to present the most complete account possible of the more than 50 individual nations that, after centuries of neglect, hardship, and alienation, are now recognized as Canada's first founding peoples." -- back cover

Record details

ISBN: 0195424158 :
ISBN: 9780195424157 (softcover) :
Physical Description: xii, 387 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 23 cm
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Publisher: Toronto : Oxford University Press, 2006.
Copyright: ©2006

Content descriptions

General Note:	"New version of [Canada's First Nations : a history of founding peoples from earliest times], updated, revised, and streamlined"--P. [4] of cover.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references (p. [314]-374) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	List of maps -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. At the beginning -- Chapter 2. First meetings -- Chapter 3. On the eastern edge of the mainland -- Chapter 4. Huron, Five Nations, and Europeans -- Chapter 5. Some Amerindian-Colonial wars -- Chapter 6. The world shifts -- Chapter 7. Westward and northward -- Chapter 8. Turntable of 1812-1814 -- Chapter 9. The 'Indian problem': Isolation, assimilation, and experimentation -- Chapter 10. Towards confederation for Canada, towards wardship for Amerindians -- Chapter 11. The first Numbered Treaties, police, and the Indian Act -- Chapter 12. Time of troubles as the old way fades -- Chapter 13. Repression and resistance -- Chapter 14. Tightening the reins: Resistance grows and organizes -- Chapter 15. Development heads north -- Chapter 16. Canadian courts and Aboriginal rights -- Chapter 17. The road to self-government -- Epilogue -- Appendix: National Historic Sites of Canada commemorating Aboriginal history -- Glossary -- Web sites -- Notes -- Index.