Aboriginal history
Subtitle: a reader
By: edited by Kristin Burnett and Geoff Read
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Don Mills, Ont
Language: eng
Number of pages: 490
ISBN-13: 9780195432350
Subjects: Historiography; Autochtones; Indians of North America; Indigenes Volk; Native peoples; Histoire; Historiographie; Indianer; History
Description: "Combining contemporary articles with historical documents, this engaging reader examines the rich history of Canada's Aboriginal peoples. The 30 articles - half of which are original to this volume - explore a diverse range of topics, including spirituality, colonialism, self-identity, federal policy, residential schools, labour, and women's rights. With in-depth coverage of events and processes from the earliest times through to the modern day, Aboriginal History: A Reader offers students a new appreciation for the long and complex history of Canada's First Nations, Métis, and Inuit peoples."--Pub. desc.
Notes: Col. map on cover lining.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Aboriginal History in a Colonial Context / Kristin Burnett and Geoff Read; title: 1. World Views:; title: Indigeneity in Canada: Spirituality, the Sacred, and Survival / Dennis H. McPherson and J. Douglas Rabb; title: Indigenous Pedagogy: A Way Out of Dependency / Betty Bastien; title: 2. Perspectives on Contact Imagining a Distant New World / Daniel K. Richter; title: Plan of Hochelaga Picturing Contact, Cartier, 1556 / Ramusio; title: Jacques Cartier and His First Interview with Indians at Hochelaga, 1850 / Andrew Morris; title: Into the Arctic Archipelago: Edward Parry in Igloolik and the Shaman's Curse / Dorothy Harley Eber; title: Excerpt from an Interview with Rosie Iqallijuq / Interviewed and translated by Louis Tapardjuk.; title: 3. Population Debates:; title: Recent Work and Prospects in American Indian Contact Population / David Henige; title: Natural [Herbal] Medicine / Joseph-François Lafitau; title: Treaties and Tuberculosis: First Nations People in Late Nineteenth-Century Western Canada, A Political and Economic Transformation / J.W. Daschuk, Paul Hackett, and Scott MacNeil; title: Report of Acting Superintendent M.G. Dickieson, July 1879 / Office of the North-West Indian Superintendent, Battleford, N.W.T.; title: 4. War, Conflict, and Society:; title: Slavery, the Fox Wars, and the Limits of Alliance / Brett Rushforth.; title: Baptisms, 21 September 1713; title: The Divided Ground: Upper Canada, New York, and the Iroquois Six Nations, 1783-1815 / Alan Taylor; title: Speech by Red Jacket, 21 November 1790 / Seneca War Chief, Red Jacket, speaking to representatives of the US government; title: 5. The Fur Trade: Fur-Trade History as an Aspect of Native History / Arthur J. Ray; title: Minutes from the Excise Committee of the Hudson's Bay Company, 24 March 1673 / A Committee at the Excise office; title: Women, Kin, and Catholicism: New Perspectives on the Fur Trade / Susan Sleeper-Smith; title: Reminiscences of Early Days on Mackinac Island / Elizabeth Thérèse Baird.; title: 6. Locating Métis Identity:; title: 'I Shall Settle, Marry, and Trade Here': British Military Personnel and Their Mixed-Blood Descendants / Alexander V. Campbell; title: Métis Nationalism: Then and Now / Yvon Dumont; title: Only Pemmican Eaters? The International Press and Métis Identity, 1869-1885 / Geoff Read and Todd Webb; title: The Insurrection in Manitoba / Brisbane Courier; title: 7. Federal Indian Policy:; title: Dreaming in Liberal White: Canadian Indian Policy, 1913-83 / Hugh Shewell.; title: Civilizing Influences / A proposed pamphlet by Thomas Deasy, Indian Agent, 1920; title: Our Medicines: First Nations Medical Practices and the Nanaimo Indian Hospital, 1945-1975 / Laurie Meijer Drees; title: Excerpt from an Interview with Violet Charlie 14 May 2008 / Interview by Laurie Meijer Drees.; title: 8. Survivance, Identity, and the Indian Act:; title: Identity, Non-Status Indian, and Federally Unrecognized Peoples / Bonita Lawrence; title: Indian Act, 1867, Sections 3(3)-3(6); title: Stuck at the Border of the Reserve: Bill C-31 and the Impact on First Nations Women / Jaime Mishibinijima; title: Excerpt from an Interview with Life Respondent 12, July 2008 / Interview by Jaime Mishibinijima; title: Indian Act, 1985, Section 6.; title: 9. Residential Schools:; title: Always Remembering: Indian Residential Schools in Canada / Celia Haig-Brown; title: Program of Studies for Indian Schools, 1897; title: Reflections on the Indian Residential School Settlement Agreement: From Court Cases to Truth and Reconciliation / Lorena Sekwan Fontaine; title: Excerpt from the Indian Residential Schools Settlement Agreement, May 2006; title: Telling Truths and Seeking Reconciliation: Exploring the Challenges / Rupert Ross; title: 10. Religion, Culture, and the Peoples of the North:; title: The Birth of a Catholic Inuit Community: The Transition to Christianity in Pelly Bay, NU, 1935-50 / Cornelius H.W. Remie and Jarich Oosten.; title: Excerpt from Codex Historicus, 25 December 1940 / Missionaries at Pelly Bay; title: Reflecting on the Future: New Technologies, New Frontiers / Naomi Adelson; title: Engaging and Integrating Technologies / Naomi Adelson; title: 11. The Economy and Labour:; title: Vanishing the Indians: Aboriginal Labourers in Twentieth-Century British Columbia / John Lutz; title: Excerpts from the Diary of Arthur Wellington Clah / Introduction by John Lutz; title: Colonialism at Work: Labour Placement Programs for Aboriginal Women in Post-War Canada / Joan Sangster.; title: Indian Girls Achieve Successful Careers; title: Pave the Way for Others / Indian News (Newsletter published by the Department of Indian Affairs); title: 12. Aboriginal Women:; title: Categories and Terrains of Exclusion: Constructing the 'Indian Woman' in the Early Settlement Era in Western Canada / Sarah Carter.; title: Letter from Mrs Mary McNaughton Concerning the Chattels of Indian Women Married to White Men and Living on the Reserve, dated 15 December 1879 / Mary McNaughton, Cayuga tribe, to Sir John A. Macdonald; title: Making History: Elsie Marie Knott, Canada's First Female Indian Act Chief / Cora Voyageur; title: Excerpt from the Indian Act, 1951.; title: 13. Negotiating Health and Well-Being:; title: Industrial Fisheries and the Health of Local Communities in the Twentieth-Century Canadian Northwest / Liza Piper; title: Letter from Chief Pierre Freezie to S.J. Bailey, 9 October 1950 / Petition to stop commercial fishing on Great Slave Lake; title: 'The Indians Would Be Better Off If They Tended to Their Farms Instead of Dabbling in Fisheries' / Gabrielle Parent; title: Maps of the Thunder Bay Mining Region of Lake Superior / Geological and National History Survey of Canada, 1887; title: Early Pioneer Fur Trading Settlement / Newspaper Advertisement from Canadian Bank of Commerce, 1954.; title: On the Nipigon River, Whitchers Camp at Hamilton Pool / W.F. Langworthy; title: On the Nipigon River, One Hour's Catch at Big Canoe Portage / W.F. Langworthy; title: 'This is a real Indian canoe in the picture, White water rapids from below' / White Charles and W.F. Langworthy; title: On the Nipigon River, 'Guzz Brother's Camp at Pizer Portage. Trout bearing camp, July 1884' / W.F. Langworthy; title: 14. Political Activism:; title: 'Nothing Left for Me or Any Other Indian': The Georgian Bay Anishnabeke Interwar Articulations of Aboriginal Rights / Robin Jarvis Brownlie; title: Letter from Elijah Tabobondung to Jon Daly, Indian Agent, 12 August 1923, Copperhead, Perry Sound, ON / Anishinabe fisherman to a lawyer.; title: Power, Praxis and the Métis of Kelly Lake, Canada / David Bentley and Brenda Murphy; title: Rare Health Services Come to Métis at Kelly Lake / Joan Taillon; title: 15. Treaties and Self-Governance:; title: Ally or Colonizer?: The Federal State, the Cree Nation, and the James Bay Agreement / Paul Rynard; title: Excerpt from Cree Regional Authority et al. v. Attorney-General of Quebec, 1991.; title: Recognition by Assimilation: Mi'kmaq Treaty Rights, Fisheries Privatization, and Community Resistance in Nova Scotia [Micmac, Mikmaq] / Martha Stiegman and Sherry Pictou; title: The Guides, 1899; title: The Guides, 2009. Harvesters from Bear River First Nation, Bear River First Nation Decendants / Martha Stiegman and Sherry Pictou.