Research Catalog

Title

Canada's first nations : a history of founding peoples from earliest times / Olive Patricia Dickason.

Author

Dickason, Olive Patricia, 1920-

Publication

Don Mills, Ont. ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2002.

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Details

Description

xvi, 560 p. : ill., maps, ports.; 23 cm.

Summary

This book embraces archaeology, anthropology, sociology, biology, political science and history to give an accurate account of the history of First Nation people in Canada. Colonialism, diseases, and assimilation are all discussed. Several illustrations are used to accentuate the content of the book.

Subject

• Indians of North America > Canada > History
• Native peoples > Canada > History
• Autochtones > Canada > Histoire
• Indians of North America > Canada > Government relations
• Indians, North American > Canada
• Population Groups > history
• Canada

Genre/Form

History

Note

• Includes index.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references: [507]-534.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• And the people came -- Settling in -- Metropolises and intercultural contacts -- Canada when Europeans arrived -- Inuit and Beothuk -- On the Eastern edge of the mainland -- People of the Sunrise -- Hurons, Five Nations, and Europeans -- Huronia's loss is the Bay's gain -- Some Amerindian-colonial wars -- Amerindians in the French New world -- Amerindians in a shifting world -- On the Great Plains -- Westward and Northward -- Turntable of 1812-14 -- Canadian Aboriginal world in the early Nineteenth Century -- Pre-Confederation administration in the Canadas -- The many fronts within Confederation -- First numbered treaties, police and the Indian Act -- As the Old Way fades, the New looks bleak -- Time of troubles, time of repression -- Leading to an administrative shift -- Canadian courts and aboriginal rights -- First Nations at home and abroad.
• Development heads North -- Social fact and developmental theory -- Rocky road to self-government -- Coercion, standoffs, and agreement, and a Royal Commission.

ISBN

019541652X

OCLC

• 47063340
• SCSB-10642934

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library