Indigenous peoples within Canada : a concise history.
Material type: TextSeries: Indigenous Collection at VPLPublisher: Don Mills, Ontario, Canada : Oxford University Press, [2023]Edition: Fifth edition / Olive Patricia Dickason, William Newbigging, Cary MillerDescription: xxxiv, 584 pages : illustrations (some colour), colour maps ; 24 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780190165888
- 019016588X
- 9780190165871
- 0190165871
- Concise history of Canada's First Nations
- 971.004/97 23
- E78C2D5352022
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900 - 999 | West Grey Durham Branch Shelves | Non-fiction | 971. 004 DIC (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 33321003259166 |
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A title in the Indigenous Collection at VPL.
Earlier editions published under the title: A concise history of Canada's First Nations.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Origin Stories -- At the Beginning -- The Invasions of the Americas -- On the Eastern Edge of the Mainland -- The Wendat Confederacy, the Haudenosaunee Confederacy, and the European Colonizers -- The Struggle for Sovereignty in Eastern North America -- The Struggle against British Colonialism -- Westward and Northward -- Indigenous Alliances and Resistance to Settler Expansion in the Western Great Lakes -- The "Indian Problem": Isolation, Assimilation, Exploitation, and Experimentation -- Towards Confederation for Canada, Towards Wardship for Indigenous Peoples -- The First Numbered Treaties, Police, and the Indian Act -- Time of Troubles -- Repression, Control, and Resistance -- Tightening the Reins: Resistance Grows and Organizes -- Development Heads North -- Canadian Courts and Aboriginal Rights -- The Road to Self-Government -- From Oka to Wa Dzun Kwuh: Reconciliation, Revitalization, and Resurgence.
The fifth edition of Indigenous Peoples within Canada is a comprehensive and accessible history of Indigenous Peoples from time immemorial to the present day. It centres Indigenous voices and perspectives throughout and links historical patterns to contemporary issues and events.
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