Canada's First Nations: A History of Founding Peoples from Earliest Times

ISBN-10: 0771028016
ISBN-13: 9780771028014
Pages: 590
Language: English
Published: 1992
Publisher: McClelland & Stewart
Author: Olive Patricia Dickason

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, beginning with the arrival of people in North America from across the Bering Strait many thousands of years ago.