Aboriginal Peoples of Canada: A Short Introduction

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Canada’s Aboriginal Peoples: A Short Introduction fills a prior to now lost sight of gap by providing the primary comprehensive overview of Canada’s First Nations people. Drawn from the highly successful Encyclopedia of Canada’s Peoples it offers extensive coverage of Canada’s aboriginal peoples, including the Algonquians/Eastern Woodlands, Algonquians/Plains, Algonquians/Subarctic, Inuit, Iroquoians, Ktunaxa, Metis, Na-Dene, Salish, Siouan, Tsimshian, and Wakashans, in addition to the numerous nations within these larger groupings.

With a new preface by Paul Robert Magocsi and an introduction by well known historian Jim Miller, the gathering has papers on Each and every main group written by such scholars as Janet Chute, Olive Dickason, Louis-Jacques Dorais, and Eldon Yellowhorn. Each and every essay covers economics, culture, language, education, politics, kinship, religion, social organization, identification, and history of Each and every nation, among other topics, and ends with suggestions for further readings. Readable and suitable for the coed, casual reader or expert, the book is a superb introduction to Canada’s aboriginal peoples.

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