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First Nations in Canada

Summary: This book covers a brief history of Canada's First Nations, their different cultures, and numerous progresses documented all the way up to 1990 as recorded and reported by Indian and Northern Affairs Canada.

Record details

  • ISBN: 066225502X
  • ISBN: 9780662255024
  • Physical Description: 115 p. : ill ; 22 cm.
    print
  • Publisher: Ottawa : Indian and Northern Affairs Canada, 1997.

Content descriptions

General Note:
Issued also in French under title: Les Premieres nations du Canada.
New September 2014.
"QS-6108-000-EE-A1"--T.p. verso.
Formatted Contents Note: The people and their culture: Prehistory -- A survey of the culture areas: Woodland First Nation; The Iroquoian First Nations of Southeastern Ontario; First Nations of the Plains; First Nations of the Plateau; Pacific Coast First Nations; First Nations of the Mackenzie and Yukon River Basins -- The newcomers: First encounters; Religious missions; The ravages of disease; Intertribal conflict; French versus English; First Nations' rights; The Western fur trade; Experiments in acculturation; The Robinson treaties; An act for "gradual civilization"; The Métis resistance; The major treaties; The Northwest rebellion of 1885; Treaties for the Northern reaches; The first Indian act -- The age of resurgence: The joint committee hearings (1946-1948); The 1951 Indian act; The 1969 white paper; Indian control of Indian education; James Bay and Northern Quebec agreement; Aboriginal rights confirmed; Native claims; Comprehensive claims; Claims in British Columbia; Nisga'a tribal council; Specific claims; Treaty land entitlement; Economic development -- Progress in the 1980s and 1990s: The elimination of gender discrimination in the Indian act; The Indian act - Kamloops amendment (Bill C-115); The Oka crisis; Aboriginal peoples and the constitution; Implementation of Aboriginal self-government; The first Nations land management agreement; Dismantling the department; Amendments to the Indian act (1995); Royal commission on Aboriginal peoples -- Conclusion.
Immediate Source of Acquisition Note:
Donation (copy 1) ; William C. Wonders ; 2008/03.
Subject: Indigenous peoples -- North America -- Canada -- History
Indigenous peoples -- North America -- Canada
Indigenous peoples -- North America -- Canada -- Government relations
Indigenous peoples -- North America -- Canada -- Social life and customs

Available copies

  • 1 of 1 copy available at Selkirk College.

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  • 0 current holds with 1 total copy.
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Location Call Number / Copy Notes Barcode Shelving Location Circulation Modifier Holdable? Status Due Date Courses
Castlegar Campus Library E 78 C2 F553 1997 (Text)
Copy: c. 1
B000990531 General Volume hold Available -

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