Research Catalog

Title

First Nations in Canada.

Publication

Ottawa : Indian and Northern Affairs Canada, 1997.

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Details

Additional Authors

Canada. Indian and Northern Affairs Canada

Description

115 p. : ill.; 22 cm.

Subject

• Indians of North America > Canada
• Indians of North America > Canada > History
• Indians of North America > Canada > Government relations

Genre/Form

History

Note

• Issued also in French under title: Les Premières nations du Canada.
• "QS-6108-000-EE-A1"--T.p. verso.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

General introduction -- The people and their cultures (Prehistory) -- A survey of the culture areas (Woodland first nations ; The Iroquoian First Nations of Southeastern Ontario ; First Nations of the plains ; First Nations of the plateau ; Pacific Coast First Nations ; First Nations of the Mackenzie and the Yukon River Basins) -- The Newcomers (First Encounters ; Religious missions ; The ravages of disease ; Intertribal conflict ; French versus English ; First Nations' rights ; The Western Fur Trade ; Experiments in Acculturation ; The Robinson Treaties ; An act for "Gradual Civilization" ; The Metis Resistance ; The major treaties ; The Northwest Rebellion ; Treaties for the Northern Reaches ; The First Indian Act) -- Age of Resurgence (The Joint committee hearings (1946-1948) ; The 1951 Indian Act ; The 1969 White paper ; Indian control of Indian Education ; James Bay and Northern Quebec Agreement ; Aboriginal rights confirmed ; Native Claims ; Comprehensive Claims ; Claims in British Columbia ; Nisga'a tribal council ; Specific claims ; Treaty land entitlement ; Economic Development) -- Progress in the 1980s and 1990s (The elimination of Gender Discrimination in the Indian Act ; The Indian Act - Kamloops Amendment (Bill C-115) ; The Oka Crisis ; Aboriginal peoples and the Constitution ; Implementation of Aboriginal Self-government ; The First Nations land management agreement ; Dismantling the department ; Amendments to the Indian Act (1995) ; Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples ; Conclusion)

ISBN

066225502X

LCCN

^^^98187529^

OCLC

• 37369788
• SCSB-12269265

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library