Illustrated History of Canada's Native People, Fourth Edition
Illustrated History of Canada's Native People, Fourth Edition

Author: Arthur J. Ray

Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

Published: 2016-05-01

Total Pages: 452

ISBN-13: 0773599584

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Canada’s Native people have inhabited this land since the Ice Age and were already accomplished traders, artisans, farmers, and marine hunters when Europeans first reached their shores. Contact between Natives and European explorers and settlers initially presented an unprecedented period of growth and opportunity. But the two vastly different cultures soon clashed. Arthur Ray charts the history of Canada’s Native people from first contact to current land claims. The result is a fascinating chronicle that spans 12,000 years and culminates in the headlines of today. In the preface to this new edition, Ray elaborates on the increasing effectiveness of Indigenous peoples and their leaders in bringing demands for justice to centre stage. He discusses recent court decisions, the final report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada, and the hope for change following promises made by the new Trudeau government.

An Illustrated History of Canada's Native People
An Illustrated History of Canada's Native People

Author: Arthur J. Ray

Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

Published: 2011-08-18

Total Pages: 452

ISBN-13: 077359079X

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Canada's Native people have inhabited this land since the Ice Age and were already accomplished traders, artisans, farmers and marine hunters when Europeans first reached their shores. Contact between Natives and European explorers and settlers initially presented an unprecedented period of growth and opportunity. But the two vastly different cultures soon clashed. Arthur J. Ray charts the history of Canada's Native people from first contact to current land claims. The result is a fascinating chronicle that spans 12,000 years and culminates in the headlines of today.

Native People, Native Lands
Native People, Native Lands

Author: Bruce Alden Cox

Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

Published: 1988

Total Pages: 316

ISBN-13: 0886290627

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This collection of timely essays by Canadian scholars explores the fundamental link between the development of aboriginal culture and economic patterns. The contributors draw on original research to discuss Megaprojects in the North, the changing role of native women, reserves and devices for assimilation, the rebirth of the Canadian Metis, aboriginal rights in Newfoundland, the role of slave-raiding, and epidemics and firearms in native history.

Whose North?
Whose North?

Author: M. O. Dickerson

Publisher: UBC Press

Published: 1992

Total Pages: 260

ISBN-13: 9780774804189

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Aims to provide the context for a better understanding of the political issues in the Northwest Territories, where a majority of the residents are native. The author discusses such issues as land claims, division, constitutional development, self-government and economic development.

Finding Dahshaa
Finding Dahshaa

Author: Stephanie Irlbacher-Fox

Publisher: UBC Press

Published: 2010-01-01

Total Pages: 213

ISBN-13: 9780774816243

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Just as dahshaa – a rare type of dried, rotted spruce wood – is essential to the moosehide-tanning process in Dene culture, self-determination and the alleviation of social suffering are necessary to Indigenous survival in Northwest Territories. But is self-government an effective path to self-determination? Finding Dahshaa shows where self-government negotiations between Canada and the Dehcho, Délînê, and Inuvialuit and Gwich'in peoples have gone wrong and offers, through descriptions of tanning practices that embody principles and values central to self-determination, an alternative model for negotiations. This book, which includes a foreword by Dene National Chief Bill Erasmus, is the first ethnographic study of self-government negotiations in Canada.