A Concise History of Canada's First Nations
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Initial publish date
- May 2010
- Category
- General
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Digital (on physical carrier)
- ISBN
- 9780199023233
- Publish Date
- Aug 2015
- List Price
- $35.00
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Digital (on physical carrier)
- ISBN
- 9780199002474
- Publish Date
- Nov 2011
- List Price
- $39.95
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9780195432428
- Publish Date
- May 2010
- List Price
- $77.95
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9780199008537
- Publish Date
- Jan 2015
- List Price
- $81.95
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Description
A fully updated, streamlined edition of the award-winning Canada's First Nations, this brief but comprehensive history of Canada's founding nations traces the past of more than fifty First Nations. The new second edition documents the history and contributions of Canada's original inhabitants from pre-contact and first encounters with Europeans to present struggles for self-determination, offering the most complete account possible of the individual nations that are now recognized as Canada's founding peoples.
About the authors
When I first met Canadian history, as a student in a convent school in the outskirts of Winnipeg, it was generally accepted that Canada was a large new country with little history. In the words of William Lyon Mackenzie King in 1936, when he was Liberal Prime Minister, "if some countries have too much history, we have too much geography." History was perceived as a written discipine, which in the case of Canada meant that it began with the arrival of writing---i.e, Europeans. It wasn't until I discovered that I had Metis ancestry that I began to wonder about Canada before Europeans. As I learned more about that distant and too-often ignored past, my country took on a whole new aspect. Exploring its history became a personal quest, all the more focussed because the heritage of my mixed ancestry had been reinforced during my adolescent years by living on the land in Manitoba's north, hunting and trapping. It was through a series of lucky breaks that I was able to go to university, at Father Athol Murray's Notre Dame College in Wilcox, SK, from there to become a journalist and finally, after being blessed with more good fortune, a professor of history at the University of Alberta. Although now retired, I am still passionate about researching and writing the Aboriginal aspect of Canadian history.