Out of the background : readings on Canadian native history

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Out of the background : readings on Canadian native history / edited by Ken S. Coates & Robin Fisher.

Fisher, Robin, 1946- (Added Author). Coates, Kenneth, 1956- (Added Author).

Record details

ISBN: 0773055339
ISBN: 9780773055339
Physical Description: viii, 405 pages : maps ; 23 cm.
Edition: 2nd ed.
Publisher: Toronto : Copp Clark Ltd., ©1996.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:: Includes bibliographical references (pages 403-405).
Formatted Contents Note:: Road to affluence : a reassessment of early Huron responses to European contact / Bruce G. Trigger -- Through another glass darkly : early Indian views of Europeans / James Axtell -- The European impact on the culture of a northeastern Algonquian tribe : an ecological interpretation / Calvin Martin -- Voices of disaster : smallpox around the Strait of Georgia in 1782 / Cole Harris -- Periodic shortages, native welfare, and the Hudson's Bay Company, 1670-1930 / Arthur J. Ray -- "Women in between" : Indian women in fur trade society in western Canada / Sylvia Van Kirk -- Prophets, priests, and preachers : glimpses of Dene history / Kerry Abel -- Canada's subjugation of the Plains Cree, 1879-1885 / John L. Tobias -- Categories and terrains of exclusion : constructing the "Indian woman" in the early settlement era in western Canada / Sarah Carter -- The sinews of their lives : native access to resources in the Yukon, 1890 to 1950 / Ken S. Coates -- Desperately seeking absolution : native agency as colonialist alibi? / Robin Brownlie and Mary-Ellen Kelm -- The destruction of an Ojibwa community : relations with the outside society / Anastasia M. Shkilnyk -- When the world was new : stories of the Sahtú Dene / George Blondin.

Cut-offs, claims prohibition, and the allied tribes, 1916-27 / Paul Tennant -- Justa : a First Nations leader (Dakelhne butsowhudilhzulh'un) / Bridget Moran -- Marketing the imaginary Indian / Daniel Francis -- The twentieth century and the failure of centralization : a Micmac perspective / Daniel Paul -- Renewal of the potlatch at Cape Mudge / Harry Assu with Joy Inglis -- Great White Father knows best : Oka and the land claims process / J.R. Miller -- Judging history : reflections on the reasons for judgment in Delgamuukw v. B.C. / Robin Fisher.