The authors explain how Saskatchewan treaties were shaped by long-standing First Nations-Hudson's Bay Company diplomatic and economic understanding, treaty practices developed in eastern Canada before the 1870s, and the changing economic ...
The Native people of Canada have been here since the Ice Age and were already accomplished traders, artisans, farmers, and marine hunters when Europeans first reached their shores. Contact initially...
But the two vastly different cultures soon clashed. Arthur J. Ray charts the history of Canada's Native people from first contact to current land claims.
But the two vastly different cultures soon clashed. Arthur J. Ray charts the history of Canada's Native people from first contact to current land claims.
In the preface to this new edition, Ray elaborates on the increasing effectiveness of Indigenous peoples and their leaders in bringing demands for justice to centre stage.
... in the Department of History at the University of British Columbia , and author of The Canadian Fur Trade in the Industrial Age and I Have Lived Here Since the World Began : An Illustrated History of Canada's Native People .
Judge Berger said: 'We look upon the north as our last frontier. It is natural for us to think of developing the ... Our whole inclination is to think in terms of expanding our industrial machine to the limit of our country's frontiers.
In Telling It to the Judge, Ray recalls lengthy courtroom battles over lines of evidence, historical interpretation, and philosophies of history, reflecting on the problems inherent in teaching history in the adversarial courtroom setting.
Bounty and Benevolence draws on a wide range of documentary sources to provide a rich and complex interpretation of the process that led to these historic agreements.
Taking Native History to Court Arthur J. Ray. the face of self-serving doctrine justifying overwhelming force and ... Conference, Toronto, 4–5 October 2010) [available from the author]. 8 Ray, Telling It to the Judge, 158. 9 10 11 12 13 ...
In Aboriginal Rights Claims and the Making and Remaking of History, Arthur Ray examines how claims-oriented research is often fitted to the existing frames of indigenous rights law and claims legislation and, as a result, has influenced the ...
First published in 1974, this best-selling book was lauded by Choice as 'an important, ground-breaking study of the Assiniboine and western Cree Indians who inhabited southern Manitoba and Saskatchewan' and 'essential reading for anyone ...
The book's clear focus and wide-ranging perspective result in a fresh and important reassessment of early Canadian history.