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

Dickason, Olive; McNab, David T.

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0195428927 ISBN 13: 9780195428926

Casa editrice: OUP Canada, 2008

Riassunto

Canada's First Nations uses an interdisciplinary approach-drawing on research in archaeology, anthropology, biology, sociology, political science, and history-to give an account of Canada's past. Olive Dickason's widely acclaimed history of Canada's founding peoples is augmented by David McNab's updates and in-depth examination of recent events, including the Ipperwash inquiry and global warming's effect on Innu of Canada's the north.

This text describes how Canada's Aboriginal peoples were radically altered by the arrival of Europeans. They fought as allies beside the French and English during the battles of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries; they were hunted to the point of extermination in Newfoundland; and their numbers were decimated by European diseases. In the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries Canada tried to legislate Aboriginal cultures out of existence, as the official assumption remained that assimilation would bring an end to any Indian 'Problem'.

From Nescambiouit and Potiac, to Pound Maker, Abe Okpik, and Elijah Harper, Amerindians and Inuit have responded to persistent colonial pressure in various ways, including attempts at co-operation, episodes of resistances, and politically sophisticated efforts to preserve their territoriy and culture. The revitalization of today's Aboriginal communities-dramatically expressed by the Mohawk at Oka in 1990 and by members of the six nations in Caledonia in 2005-reminds us that accurate perception of the past is essential to a just shaping of Canada's future.

Su questo libro

L'autore:

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.

Contenuti:

• List of Maps
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction
• Part I: At the Beginning
• 1: And the People Came
• 2: Settling In
• 3: Metropolises and Intercultural Contacts
• 4: Canada When Europeans Arrived
• Part II: The Outside World Intrudes
• 5: Inuit and Beothuk
• 6: On the Eatern 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
• Part III: Spread Across the Continent
• 12: Amerindians in a Shifting World
• 13: On the Great Plains
• 14: Westward and Northward
• Part IV: Spread Across the Continent
• 15: Turntable of 1812-1814
• 16: Canadian Aboriginal World in the Early Nineteeth Century
• 17: Pre-Confederation Administration in the Canadas
• 18: The many Fronts within Confederation
• 19: First Numbered Treaties, Police and the Indian Act
• Part V: Spread Across the Continent
• 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 Development Theory
• 27: Rocky Road to Self-Government
• 28: Coercion, Standoffs, an Agreement, and the Royal Commission
• 29: A Fair Shake
• Epilogue
• Appendix: National Historic Sites of Canada
• Commemorating Aboriginal History
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index

Su questa edizione

• Editore: OUP Canada
• Data di pubblicazione: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0195428927
• ISBN 13: 9780195428926
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 4
• Numero di pagine: 606