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9780195424157

A Concise History of Canada's First Nations

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    9780195424157

  • ISBN10:

    0195424158

  • Edition: 4th
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2006-03-09
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press
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Summary

A Concise History of Canada's First Nations is a concise version of thebestselling history of Canada's original inhabitants, Indians, Inuit, and Metis.Using an interdisciplinary approach that combines the techniques from history,anthropology, and archaeology, Dickason and Calder trace the history of the morethan 50 First Nations in the territory that is now Canada, beginning with thearrival of people in North America across the Bering Strait many thousands ofyears ago.

Table of Contents

List of Maps
iv
Acknowledgements vi
Introduction viii
At the Beginning
1(20)
First Meetings
21(18)
On the Eastern Edge of the Mainland
39(20)
Huron, Five Nations, and Europeans
59(21)
Some Amerindian-Colonial Wars
80(14)
The World Shifts
94(13)
Westward and Northward
107(19)
Turntable of 1812--14
126(10)
The `Indian Problem': Isolation, Assimilation, and Experimentation
136(16)
Towards Confederation for Canada, Towards Wardship for Amerindians
152(19)
The First Numbered Treaties, Police, and the Indian Act
171(17)
Time of Troubles as the Old Way Fades
188(19)
Repression and Resistance
207(17)
Tightening the Reins: Resistance Grows and Organizes
224(18)
Development Heads North
242(17)
Canadian Courts and Aboriginal Rights
259(17)
The Road to Self-Government
276(20)
Epilogue 296(3)
Appendix: National Historic Sites of Canada Commemorating Aboriginal History 299(5)
Glossary 304(10)
Web Sites 314(3)
Notes 317(58)
Index 375

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