- First Nation Treaty Rights
- Aboriginal law
- North American Aboriginal history and culture
- Metis history
- Peace River
First Nations in Canada
By: Indian and Northern Affairs Canada
ISBN: 066225502X
The first chapter of this book describes the six major cultural regions of First Nations in Canada: Woodland, Iroquoian, Plains, Plateau,Pacific Coast, and Mackenzie/Yukon River basin First Nations.
Information is included, as applicable, on their principal tribes, social organization, modes of transport, dwellings, farming, fishing, hunting, warfare, trading, spiritual beliefs and ceremonies, clothing, and various customs.
It then reviews the history of First Nations from thetime of the first encounters with Europeans, through the major treaties and relations with government, to the age of resurgence of Aboriginal rights and further progress in the 1980s and 1990s.
First Nations in Canada
By: Indian and Northern Affairs Canada
ISBN: 066225502X
The first chapter of this book describes the six major cultural regions of First Nations in Canada: Woodland, Iroquoian, Plains, Plateau,Pacific Coast, and Mackenzie/Yukon River basin First Nations.
Information is included, as applicable, on their principal tribes, social organization, modes of transport, dwellings, farming, fishing, hunting, warfare, trading, spiritual beliefs and ceremonies, clothing, and various customs.
It then reviews the history of First Nations from thetime of the first encounters with Europeans, through the major treaties and relations with government, to the age of resurgence of Aboriginal rights and further progress in the 1980s and 1990s.