The native peoples of Atlantic Canada : a history of ethnic interaction / [compiled by] Harold Franklin McGee.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

McGee, Harold Franklin.

Series:

Carleton library ; no. 72.

Carleton library, 0845-9614

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Indians of North America--Atlantic Provinces.

Indians of North America.

Canada--History.

Canada.

Physical Description:

xi, 222 p.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Ottawa : Carleton University Press, c1983.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

These selections date from early contact of the native peoples of Atlantic Canada with, among others, Norse sailors, and a French priest in 1612. Some excerpts look at the now-extinct Beothuk people of Newfoundland, but most pertain to the Micmac peoples.

Contents:

Front Matter

Contents

Introduction

Karlsefni's Adventures in Vinland

Contact with the Beothuk in the Seventeenth Century

Tribe of Red Indians

A Letter Missive in regard to the Conversion and Baptism of the Grand Sagamore of New France, Who was, Before the Arrival of the French, Its Chief Sovereign

Letter from Father Pierre Biard to the Reverend Father Provincial, at Paris

The Difference That There is Between the Ancient Customs of the Indians, and Those of the Present

On the Wigwams and Dwellings of the Gaspesians

British Indian Policy in Nova Scotia to 1760

Indian Affairs in Nova Scotia, 1760-1834

M. H. Perley's Report on the Indians of New Brunswick

Report on Indian Affairs1

Indians of Nova Scotia

Culture Loss and Culture Change among the Micmac of the Canadian Maritime Provinces, 1912-1950

Social Time and Institutional Conflict

Two Malecite Family Industries: A Case Study

Funny-I'm Still Looking For That Place

No Longer Neglected: A Decade of Writing Concerning the Native Peoples of the Maritimes

Further Reading

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliography.

ISBN:

1-282-86393-2

9786612863936

0-7735-7338-0