Canada's First Nations: A History of Founding Peoples from Earliest Times
by Dickason, Olive Patricia

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Canada's First Nations: A History of Founding Peoples from Earliest Times: When Europeans came to Canada, they encountered complex, rich societies comprising more than 50 individual nations. Many histories have slighted these Aboriginal societies, but Canada's First Nations uses an interdisciplinary approach – embracing archeology, anthropology, biology, sociology, political science, history – to give a more complete account of the country's past. This updated and revised third edition of Olive Patricia Dickason's widely acclaimed history of Canada's founding peoples examines recent events, such as the landmark Nisga's Treaty, the many problems facing the Innu of Labrador, and the confrontation over lobster fishing at Burnt Church, New Brunswick. The peopling of the Americas and the significance of Native cultures to Canada's national character are central to this important book.

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'. The opening of the North and West to fur traders and Euro-Canadian settlers, the land-cession treaties, and the commercial exploitation of northern resources further eroded the Native peoples' place on the land.

From Nescambiouit and Pontiac to Poundmaker, Abe Okpik, and Elijah Harper, Amerindians and Inuit have responded to persistent colonial pressure in various ways, including attempts at cooperation, episodes of resistance, and politically sophisticated efforts to preserve their territory and culture. The revitalization of today's Aboriginal communities – dramatically expressed by the Mowhawk at Oka in 1990, by the Mi'kmaq at Burnt Church in 2000, and by the creation of Nunavut – reminds us that an accurate perception of the past is essential to a just shaping of Canada's future.

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ISBN-10:	019541652X
ISBN-13/EAN:	9780195416527
Author:	Dickason, Olive Patricia
Publisher:	Oxford Univ Press Don Mills, Ontario
Publication Date:	9/2001
Pages:	560 pp
Size/Dimensions:	9 x 7 x 1.25 inches
Binding:	Paperback

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Canada's First Nations: A History of Founding Peoples from Earliest Timesby Dickason, Olive Patricia

Canada's First Nations: A History of Founding Peoples from Earliest Times
by Dickason, Olive Patricia