First Peoples in Canada provides an overview of all the Aboriginal groups in Canada. Incorporating the latest research in anthropology, archaeology, ethnography and history, this new edition describes traditional ways of life, traces cultural changes that resulted from contacts …
Data on social and religious culture of Chipewyans at Reindeer Lake, and material culture of Chipewyans around Churchill River mouth. (AB1608).
In 1886, the Ihalmiut of northern Canada numbered 7,000 souls; by 1946, when 25-year-old Farley Mowat travelled to the Arctic, their population had dwindled to only 40. Living among them, he observed the millennia-old migration of the caribou and endured the bleak winters, food …
A collection of writings on issues such as megaprojects in the North, the changing roles of native women, aboriginal rights in Newfoundland, slave-trading, epidemics, and firearms in native history. Includes chapter by Michael Asch entitled "Capital and economic development: a c…
A collection of writings on issues such as megaprojects in the North, the changing roles of native women, aboriginal rights in Newfoundland, slave-trading, epidemics, and firearms in native history. Includes chapter by Michael Asch entitled "Capital and economic development: a c…
A collection of writings on issues such as megaprojects in the North, the changing roles of native women, aboriginal rights in Newfoundland, slave-trading, epidemics, and firearms in native history. Includes chapter by Michael Asch entitled "Capital and economic development: a c…
''The legacy of the residential school system ripples throughout Native Canada, its fingerprints on the domestic violence, poverty, alcoholism, drug abuse, and suicide rates that continue to cripple many Native communities. Magic Weapons is the first major survey of Indigenous w…
