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

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 Canada's founding peoples is augmented by David McNab's updates and in-depth examination of recent events, including the Ipperwash inquiry and global warming's effect on Innu of Canada's the north.

This text describes how Canada's Aboriginal peoples…