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

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Morrison, R. Bruce
Wilson, C. Roderick
Language:English
Published: Toronto : Oxford University Press, 2004.
Edition:Third edition.
Subjects:
Indigenous peoples of North America > Canada > History.
Indigenous peoples of North America > Canada > Social conditions.
Native peoples > Canada > History.
Autochtones > Canada > Histoire.
Physical Description:ix, 493 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm
Format: Book
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.