Canada's First Nations : a history of founding peoples from earliest times
Record details
- ISBN: 0806124393
- ISBN: 9780806124384
- ISBN: 0806124393
- ISBN: 9780806124391
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Physical Description:
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590 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. - Publisher: Norman : University of Oklahoma Press, ©1992.
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 521-559) and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | pt. I. At the Beginning. 1. And the People Came. 2. Settling In. 3. Metropolises and Intercultural Contacts. 4. Canada When Europeans Arrived -- pt. II. The Outside World Intrudes. 5. Inuit and Beothuk. 6. On the Eastern Edge of the Mainland. 7. People of the Sunrise. 8. Hurons, Five Nations, and Europeans. 9. Huronia's Loss Is the Bay's Gain. 10. Some Amerindian-Colonial Wars. 11. Amerindians in the French New World -- pt. III. Spread Across the Continent. 12. Amerindians in a Shifting World. 13. On the Great Plains. 14. Westward and Northward -- pt. IV. Toward New Horizons. 15. Turntable of 1812-14. 16. Canadian Aboriginal World in the Early Nineteenth Century. 17. Pre-Confederation Administration in the Canadas. 18. The Many Fronts within Confederation. 19. First Numbered Treaties, Police, and the Indian Act -- pt. V. Into the Contemporary World. 20. As the Old Way Fades, the New Looks Bleak. 21. Time of Troubles, Time of Repression. 22. Leading to an Administrative Shift. 23. Canadian Courts and Aboriginal Rights. 24. First Nations at Home and Abroad. 25. Development Heads North. 26. Social Fact and Developmental Theory. 27. Rocky Road to Self-Government. |
Awards Note: | Canadian Historical Society-Societe Historique du Canada Sir John A. Macdonald Prize, 1993. |
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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Lummi Library | E78 .C2 D53 1992 | 02237438 | Stacks | Available | - |
Lummi Library | PNW E 78 .C2 D53 1992 | 252538 | PNW | Available | - |