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Social Science Native American Studies

From the Great River to the Ends of the Earth

by (author) Martha McCarthy

Publisher
The University of Alberta Press, Western Canadian Publishers
Initial publish date
Jan 1995
Category
Native American Studies
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780888642639
    Publish Date
    Jan 1995
    List Price
    $24.95

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Description

Catholic missionaries originally saw the Mackenzie River as the heart of a vast kingdom of souls to be gained for God, whatever the claims of any other power to sovereignty. The Dene did not share this view. Martha McCarthy balances Dene oral tradition with documentary sources to explore this important and difficult period in the developing relationships between Europeans and First Nations peoples in Canada.

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