Etude comparée de deux conceptions pédagogiques-linguistiques dans le système scolaire acadien néo-écossais
First Nations Governance Law
This is a powerful personal chronicle of the real-life saga of a Native American family, and how they endured the destruction of its way of life to survive in the...
Passion for Identity provides an excellent collection of readings which are ideally suited for an introductory course in Canadian studies. The pieces are engaging, readable and highly relevant to the...
The Description and Natural History of the Coasts of North America (Acadia)
The Indian Residential School in Shubenacadie, Nova Scotia, was established by the Canadian government in 1929 to provide residential education to orphan, destitute, neglected, and other Mi'kmaw Indian children aged...
Canada's First Nations uses an interdisciplinary approach--drawing on research in archaeology, anthropology, biology, sociology, political science, and history--to give an account of Canada's past. Olive Dickason's widely acclaimed history of...
Overview and accounts of the dispersal, life during exile, the ensuing migrations, and the ultimate transplantation.
Star-spangled Canadians: Canadians Living the American Dream
A study of rural Quebec's language showed that by comparison with the urban version, it is less influenced by anglicisms, and the borrowing that has occurred is not solely of...
The Dakota Sioux in Canada
Section 35 of the Constitution Act expressly acknowledges, for the first time, that there are "aboriginal people" and "aboriginal rights." What, then, are the implications for Canada of the inclusion...
Daily Life and history of the Nootka and Makah Tribes.
Collection of Kwakiutl legends from Hope Island, British Columbia.
The Blackfoot Confederacy, 1880-1920: A Comparative Study of Canadian and U.S. Indian Policy
Study of government investigations into the care of students at Williams Lake Indian residential school in British Columbia and the deaths of two Shuswap Indian boys in 1902 and 1920.
Frank Schooner, one of the giants of the Golden Age of American Illustration, was renowned for his scenes of life on the western frontier of America and Canada. Schoonover captured...
Glass Beads
Melanson-Melançon: The Genealogy of an Acadian and Cajun Family documents the Melanson, Melançon and Melancon descendants of brothers Pierre and Charles Mellanson from their arrival in Acadia (today, Nova Scotia)...
Marcel Giraud's well-known study pieces together an objective history of the Metis and their role in the development of western Canada. While this two-volume work is out-of-print and a reprint...