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This fully updated edition is a brief but comprehensive overview of the long and vibrant history of Canada's First Nations. From pre-contact and first encounters with Europeans to present struggles for self-determination, this engaging text offers a multifaceted account of Canada's founding peoples.

Table of Contents:
1: At the Beginning 2: First Meetings 3: On the Eastern Edge of the Mainland 4: Huron, Five Nations, and Europeans 5: Some Aboriginal-Colonial Wars 6: The Struggle against British Colonialism 7: Westward and Northward 8: The British Alliance of 1812-1814 9: The "Indian Problem": Isolation, Assimilation, and Experimentation 10: Towards Confederation for Canada, Towards Wardship for First Peoples 11: The First Numbered Treaties, Police, and the Indian Act 12: Time of Troubles as the Old Way Fades 13: Repression and Resistance 14: Tightening the Reins: Resistance Grows and Organizes 15: Development Heads North 16: Canadian Courts and Aboriginal Rights 17: The Road to Self-Government 18: Reconciliation and Revitalization Epilogue Glossary

About the Author :
The late Olive Patricia Dickason was professor emeritus at the University of Alberta and adjunct professor of history at the University of Ottawa. She was the author of several books, named a Member of the Order of Canada in 1996, and received the Aboriginal Life Achievement Award, Canadian Native Arts Foundation, in 1997. William Newbigging (Ph.D. University of Toronto) is a Canadian historian specializing in the history of contact between First Peoples and Europeans. He teaches at Laurentian University and has worked as a consultant to more than a dozen Canadian First Nations on land and natural resources claims since 1990.

Review :
"This book has an incredible balance over time and space, and it encompasses a large part of the major events in First Nations history from ancient time to the current. . . . This text sets the standard for First Nations studies in Canada." --Niigaanwewidam James Sinclair, University of Manitoba


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  • ISBN-13: 9780199008537
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press, Canada
  • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press, Canada
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0199008531
  • Publisher Date: 14 Jan 2015
  • Binding: Paperback


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