New histories for old : changing perspectives on Canada's native pasts / edited by Ted Binnema and Susan Neylan.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Neylan, Susan, 1966- editor.

Binnema, Ted, 1963- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Indians of North America--Canada--History--Heading retained by George Brown library for historical purposes:.

Indians of North America.

Indians of North America--British Columbia--History--Heading retained by George Brown library for historical purposes:.

Ray, Arthur J.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvi, 280 pages) : maps

Place of Publication:

Vancouver : UBC Press, [2007]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Scholarly depictions of the history of Aboriginal people in Canada have changed dramatically since the 1970s when Arthur J. ("Skip") Ray entered the field. New Histories for Old examines this transformation while extending the scholarship on Canada's Aboriginal history in new directions. The collection combines essays by prominent senior historians, geographers, and anthropologists with contributions by new voices in these fields. The chapters reflect the core themes studied by Ray himself, including Native struggles for land and resources under colonialism, the fur trade, "Indian" policy and treaties, mobility and migration, disease and well-being, and Native-newcomer relations. This book sheds new light on the history of scholarship on Canada's Aboriginal past and the leading role played by one of Canada's foremost historians. It also provides a fascinating snapshot of the lines of inquiry pursued by emerging scholars in the field. New Histories for Old is a major contribution to understanding Native-newcomerrelations, Native struggles for land and resources under colonialism, "Indian" policy and treaties, mobility and migration, disease and well-being, and questions about "doing" Native history. It will appeal to scholars and students in history, Native studies, geography, anthropology, and related fields.

Contents:

Introduction / Ted Binnema and Susan Neylan

Arthur J. Ray and the writing of Aboriginal history / Ted Binnema and Susan Neylan

Rupert's land, Nituskeenan, our land : Cree and English naming and claiming around the dirty sea / Jennifer S.H. Brown

Echo of the crane : tracing Anishnawbek and Métis title to Bawaiting (Sault Ste. Marie) / Victor P. Lytwyn

Compact, contract, covenant : the evolution of Indian treaty-making / J.R. Miller

Smallpox along the frontier of the Plains borderlands at the turn of the twentieth century / Jody Decker

Mapping the new El Dorado : the Fraser River gold rush and the appropriation of Native space / Daniel Marshall

Innovation, tradition, colonialism, and Aboriginal fishing conflicts in the lower Fraser Canyon / Keith Thor Carlson

Meanings of mobility on the Northwest Coast / Paige Raibmon

"Choose your flag" : perspectives on the Tsimshian migration from Metlakatla, British Columbia, to New Metlakatla, Alaska, 1887 / Susan Neylan

Gitxsan law and settler disorder : the Skeena "uprising" of 1888 / R.M. Galois

Arthur J. Ray and the empirical opportunity / Cole Harris

Contributors.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786612593277

OCLC:

609140083