num_pages: 576
description: This is a comprehensive history of Canada's original inhabitants-- Indians, Inuit, and later, Metis. Using an interdisciplinary approach that combines history, anthropology, and archaeology, Dickason tells the story of the more than 50 nations in the territory that is now Canada, beginningwith the arrival of people in North America from across the Bering Strait many thousands of years ago.
language: English
title: Canada's First Nations: A History of Founding Peoples from Earliest Times
titlecomplete: Canada's First Nations: A History of Founding Peoples from Earliest Times
genres: Canada, History, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 50
awards: awardedAt: 725875200000
name: Sir John A. Macdonald Prize
publisher: Oxford University Press