Native peoples : the Canadian experience

Wilson, C. Roderick. (Added Author). Fletcher, Christopher. (Added Author).

Record details

ISBN: 0195430131
ISBN: 9780195430134
Physical Description: print
xiii, 536 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm
Edition: 4th ed.
Publisher: Don Mills, Ont. : Oxford University Press, ©2014.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

On the study of native peoples / R. Bruce Morrison, C. Roderick -- From the beginning : Canadian peoples old and new / C. Roderick Wilson and Carl Urion -- The Eskaleuts : a regional overview / Ernest S. Burch Jr and Christopher Fletcher -- Continuity and change in Inuit society / Christopher Fletcher -- The Caribou Inuit / Ernest S. Burch Jr: -- The Eastern Subarctic : a regional overview/ Jennifer S.H. Brown and C. Roderick Wilson -- Hunting and the quest for power : relationships between James Bay Crees, the land, and development / Harvey A. Feit -- The Atikamekw : reflections on their changing world / Sylvie Poirier -- The Western Subarctic : a regional overview / C. Roderick Wilson -- The Dene Tha' of Chateh : continuities and transformations / Jean-Guy A. Goulet -- The Mackenzie Valley Dene : the continuing relevance of Asch's ethnohistory to development / Roberrt Wishart -- Offerings of stewardship : celebrating life and livelihood of Gwich'in Women in the Northwest Territories / Brenda Parlee, Alestine Andre, and Ingrid Kritsch -- Farmers and hunters of the Eastern Woodlands : a regional overview / Mary Druke Becker and Thomas S. Abler -- Iroquois and Iroquoians in Canada and North America / Thomas S. Abler -- The Mi'kmaq : T'an Mi'kmaqik Telo'ltipni'k Mi'kma'kik -- "How the People Lived in Mi'kma'ki" / Roger Lewis and Trudy Sable -- Myths and realities : an overview of the plains / C. Roderick Wilson -- The Blackfoot Nation / Hugh A. Dempsey and L. James Dempsey -- The Plains Metis / Heather Devine -- "We Must Farm to Enable Us to Live" : the Plains Cree and agriculture to 1900 / Sarah Carter -- The plateau : a regional overview / Douglas Hudson and Marianne Ignace -- The Okanagan / Douglas Hudson -- The Secwépemc : traditional resource use and rights to land / Marianne Ignace and Ron Igance -- The Northwest Coast : a regional overview / Margaret Seguin Anderson -- Understanding Tsimshian Potlatch / Margaret Seguin Anderson -- The Coast Salish : transnational identities in the land of the transformer / Michael Marker -- Taking stock : legacies and prospects / C. Roderick Wilson, R. Bruce Morrison, and Christopher Fletcher.