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Title Native people, native lands : Canadian Indians, Inuit and Metis / edited by Bruce Alden Cox
Published Ottawa : Carleton University Press, 1991, ©1987

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 298 pages)
Series Carleton library ; no. 142
Carleton library ; no. 142.
Contents ""COVER""; ""TABLE OF CONTENTS""; ""INTRODUCTION""; ""PART I: THE GREAT LAKES � ST. LAWRENCE REGION""; ""CHAPTER 1 The Iroquois Wars and Native Arms""; ""The Dutch""; ""Iroquois Guns""; """"The 400 Guns of the Mohawk""""; ""The Operational Parameters of the Seventeenth Century Musket""; ""Notes""; ""CHAPTER 2 Epidemics: The Forgotten Factor in Seventeenth Century Native Warfare in the St. Lawrence Region""; ""The Epidemics""; ""Post-Epidemic Warfare""; ""Notes""; ""CHAPTER 3 Ktaqamkuk Ilnui Saqimawoutie: Aboriginal Rights and the Myth of the Micmac Mercenaries in Newfoundland""
The Micmac Mercenary MythThe Magic Date -- Archaeological Evidence -- Other Contributions by Anthropologists -- Epilogue -- Notes -- CHAPTER 4 Families of Mixed Descent in the Western Great Lakes Region -- Self-Ascription -- Ascription by Outsiders -- Mating and Marriage Patterns -- The Requirements for the Development of an Ethnic Identity -- Notes -- PART II: THE BOREAL FOREST -- CHAPTER 5 The Significance of Hunting Territories Today -- Notes -- CHAPTER 6 Waswanipi Cree Management of Land and Wildlife: Cree Ethno-Ecology Revisited -- Introduction
""Some Features of the Waswanipi Ethno-Ecosystem""""Waswanipi Hunting Recipes""; ""Waswanipi Resource Management""; ""Conclusions""; ""Afterword, 1973""; ""Postscript, 1986""; ""Notes""; ""CHAPTER 7 The Innu Bands of Labrador""; ""Notes""; ""CHAPTER 8 The Home Guard Cree and the Hudson's Bay Company: The First Hundred Years""; ""Notes""; ""PART III: THE PRAIRIES""; ""CHAPTER 9 The Métis Nation: Buffalo Hunting versus Agriculture in the Red River Settlement, 1810-1870""; ""The Nature of Agriculture and Animal Husbandry in the Red River Settlement""
""The Contributions of the Red River Métis""""Conclusions""; ""Notes""; ""CHAPTER 10 The Métis: Genesis and Rebirth""; ""Acadia and New France""; ""Métis Communities in the Great Lakes Region""; """"Natives of Hudson's Bay""""; ""Ethnogenesis in Red River""; ""Red River to the 1870s""; ""Métis Renaissance: The 1980s""; ""Notes""; ""CHAPTER 11 Indian Reserves in Western Canada: Indian Homelands or Devices for Assimilation?""; ""Notes""; ""PART IV: THE PACIFIC REGION""; ""CHAPTER 12 Slave Raiding on the North Pacific Coast""; ""Slavery""; ""War""; ""Slave Raids""; ""Conclusions""; ""Notes""
CHAPTER 13 Women Traders in the Maritime Fur TradeMaritime Fur Trade -- Women Traders -- Women's Traditional Economic Roles -- Property Ownership -- Women's Role in Trade -- Conclusions -- Notes -- CHAPTER 14 Fishing is Women's Business: Changing Economic Roles of Carrier Women and Men -- The Indigenous Economy and Social Organization -- Economic Transition and Changing Relationships to the Land -- The Rise of a Capitalist Labour Market -- The Impact of State Intervention -- Fishing and Contemporary Politics -- Notes
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 284-298)
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Subject Indians of North America -- Canada.
HISTORY -- Canada -- General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
Indians of North America.
Canada.
Form Electronic book
Author Cox, Bruce Alden, editor.
Hutchinson, Jean.
ISBN 9780773581487
0773581480
0886290627
9780886290627