Native peoples : the Canadian experience edited by R. Bruce Morrison and C. Roderick Wilson

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Morrison, R. Bruce.

Wilson, C. Roderick.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Indians of North America--Canada--History.

Indians of North America.

Indians of North America--Canada--Social conditions.

Physical Description:

ix, 493 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm.

Edition:

3rd ed.

Place of Publication:

Toronto : Oxford University Press, 2004.

Contents:

PART I. INTRODUCTION

On the study of native peoples / R. Bruce Morrison, C. Roderick Wilson

First nations prehistory and Canadian history / C. Roderick Wilson, Carl Urion

PART II. THE ARCTIC

The Eskaleuts: a regional overview / Ernest S. Burch Jr., Christopher Fletcher

Continuity and change in Inuit society / Christopher Fletcher

The Caribou Inuit / Ernest S. Burch Jr.

PART III. THE EASTERN SUBARCTIC

The Northern Algonquians: a regional overview / Jennifer S.H. Brown, C. Roderick Wilson

Hunting and the quest for power: the James Bay Cree and Whiteman development / Harvey A. Feit

The Atikamekw: reflections on their changing world / Sylvie Poirier

PART IV. THE WESTERN SUBARCTIC

The Northern Athapaskans: a regional overview / C. Roderick Wilson

The Dene Tha of Chateh: continuities and transformations / Jean-Guy A. Goulet

The slavery Indians: the relevance of ethnohistory to development / Michael Asch, Robert Wishart

The carrier and the politics of history / Elizabeth Furniss

PART V. THE EASTERN WOODLANDS

Farmers and hunters of the Eastern Woodlands: a regional overview / Mary Druke Becker

Iroquois and Iroquoian in Canada / Mary Druke Becker

The Mi'kmaq: a maritime woodland group / Virginia P. Miller

PART VI. THE PLAINS

Myths and realities: an overview of the plains / C. Roderick Wilson

The blackfoot nation / Hugh A. Dempsey

The plains metis / John E. Foster

'We must farm to enable us to live': the Plains Cree and and agriculture to 1900 / Sarah Carter

PART VII. THE PLATEAU

The plateau: a regional overview / Douglas Hudson, Marianne Ignace

The Okanagan / Douglas Hudson

The Secwepemc: traditional resource use and rights to land / Marianne Ignace, Ron Ignace

PART VIII. THE NORTHWEST COAST

The northwest coast: a regional overview ; Understanding Tsimshian Potlatch / Margaret Seguin Anderson

From Kwakiutl to Kwakwaka'wakw / Peter Macnair

PART IX. CONCLUSION

Taking stock: legacies and prospects / C. Roderick Wilson, R. Bruce Morrison.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

The Indian Rights Association Complementary Collection.

The French North American Collection.

ISBN:

0195418190 (pbk.)

9780195418194 (pbk.)

OCLC:

53939672

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