Canada's First Nations: A History of Founding Peoples from Earliest Times - Hardcover

Dickason, Olive Patricia

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 019541652X ISBN 13: 9780195416527

Publisher: OUP Canada, 2001

Synopsis

Canada's First Nations is a comprehensive history of Canada's original inhabitants, Indians, Innuit, and later, Metis. Using an interdisciplinary approach combining techniques from history, anthropology, and archaeology, Dickason tells the story of the more than 50 First Nations in the territory that is now Canada.

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About the Author

Olive Patricia Dickason is Professor Emeritus, University of Alberta. She is the author of several books, including The Myth of the Savage (1984, 1997) and, with L.C. Green, The Laws of Nations and the New World (1989). Dr Dickason was named a Member of the Order of Canada in 1996 and received the Aboriginal Life Achievement Award, Canadian Native Arts Foundation, in 1997. Throughout her distinguished career she has remained proud of her Métis heritage. David T. McNab is an Associate Professor of Native Studies at York University. He has written widely on the topics of Aboriginal history and literature, Aboriginal land and treaty rights, British imperial history, Canadian history, and Ontario history. Professor McNab also serves as an advisor on land and treaty rights and governance issues for a number of First Nations and other Aboriginal organizations in Ontario and Newfoundland.

Synopsis

A comprehensive history of Canada's original inhabitants, Indians, Innuit, and later, Metis. Using an interdisciplinary approach combining techniques from history, anthropology, and archaeology, the author tells the story of the more than 50 first nations in the territory that is now Canada.

Edition details

• Publisher: OUP Canada
• Publication date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 019541652X
• ISBN 13: 9780195416527
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 576