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Copyright Year:
2023

Imprint: OUP Canada

Indigenous Peoples within Canada

A Concise History, Fifth Edition

Olive Patricia Dickason, William Newbigging and Cary Miller

Indigenous Peoples within Canada is a seminal text in the field of Indigenous history in Canada. It spans the full history of Indigenous Peoples, beginning with origin stories and the pre-contact era and then tracing the development of Indigenous-European relations from contact to the present day. The final chapters include updated content on contemporary events such as Wet'suwet'en activism at Wa Dzun Kwuh and Pope Francis' recent apology for residential school abuses. Indigenous perspectives are centred throughout, with Indigenous interpretations of historical events and Indigenous contributions to the history of what is now Canada foregrounded. Indigenous voices are further amplified through the use of autonyms, profiles of Indigenous leaders, art by Indigenous artists, and an expanded transborder perspective that reflects Indigenous views of the land that is now North America. The clear, accessible writing style and many pedagogical features, including an autonym chart and timelines and maps in every chapter, aid student comprehension throughout the text.

Readership : Students taking Indigenous history courses at universities and colleges across Canada. These courses are usually offered in history departments (sometimes cross-listed in Indigenous studies or Canadian studies departments) at the first- or second-year level.

Maps
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Autonym Chart
1 Origin Stories
Chapter Outline
Learning Outcomes
Introduction
Oral History and Origin Stories
- The East: The Mi'kmaq of Listuguj
- The South: The Komaawiigoo Odaawaak
- The West: Haida
- The North: The Inuit of Sikusiilaq
Turtle Island and the Journey towards the Setting Sun
Origin Story and Ethnohistory
Summary
Questions to Consider
Recommended Resources
2 At the Beginning
Chapter Outline
Learning Outcomes
Migrations, Movements, and Settlement
Early Technology
Cultural Adaptations and Resource Management
Farming-The Three Sisters and Hundreds of Other Plants
- Animal Resources
Cultural Adaptations and Geography
Social Organization
- Egalitarian and Hierarchical Societies
Trade and Alliance
- Trade and Gift Diplomacy: An Important Part of Interactions
- Allies and a Great League of Peace: Great Lakes Region, Huronia, and People of the Longhouse
- Hostilities
Summary
Questions to Consider
Recommended Resources
3 The Invasions of the Americas
Chapter Outline
Learning Outcomes
What Are First Contacts?
How the European Gaze Became Colonialism
Colonialism and Just War Theory
The Myth that The Earth is Flat
Christopher Columbus Was Bad at Math
What Happened When Columbus Returned?
How Did American Colonization Impact Europe?
First Discussion of International Human Rights
The Valladolid Debates
Colonialism is Discussed in England
The State of Nature and the Myth of the Wilderness
The French Envision Colonialism
Inuit Encounters
Subarctic Meetings - Different Perspectives
The "Fish" - by Any Definition - Brought Europeans to the North Atlantic Coast, and Contact Turned into Conflict
- The Beothuk Experience-Resistance and Genocide
- Fur, Felt, and Spread of Disease?
Indigenous and European Ethos: Differences That Would Lead to Misunderstanding
Summary
Questions to Consider
Recommended Resources
4 On the Eastern Edge of the Mainland
Chapter Outline
Learning Outcomes
First Contacts
Stadakhona
The Innu and the Fur Trade
- The Innu Control of the Early Trade
- Friction between Trading Partners
- The Trade Shifts Westward
Who "Owns" the Land, and What Does Ownership Involve?
Benefit and Cost of the English-French Rivalry
People of the Sunrise
- The Wabanaki Fight for Their Land
- The Wabanaki Refuse to Be Pawns in a European Game
- The Wabanaki Suffer in Their Allies' Defeat
Summary
Questions to Consider
Recommended Resources
5 The Wendat Confederacy, the Haudenosaunee Confederacy, and the European Colonizers
Chapter Outline
Learning Outcomes
The Wendats Choose a French Alliance
The Fur Trade and Global Commerce
The Wendat Conflict with the Haudenosaunee
- Trade Amid Missionaries: The Wendat Navigate Two Worlds
- Disease and Destabilization?
The Kanien'keha:ka and Onondowaga Succeed in Scattering the Wendat
Wendake's Loss Is the Bay's Gain
- English Trade Brings Changes, but Culture Remains Intact
- The First Treaties Formalized Trade Alliances
- Adaptation of Cultures
Indigenous Imperatives to Trade
- National Territories Shift as the French Push beyond the Pays d'en Haut
Summary
Questions to Consider
Recommended Resources
6 The Struggle for Sovereignty in Eastern North America
Chapter Outline
Learning Outcomes
Alliances and Warfare
Haudenosaunee War with the French and Their Allies (1609-1701)
- Haudenosaunee Unity, Patched-Up Peace
- The Guerrilla Tactics of the Kanien'keha:ka
- French Invasion in the West
War in Haudenosaunee Territory
-The Haudenosaunee Claim the Balance of Power, but Disease and Dissension Follow
The Mesquakie War (1710-38)
- Kiala Works for Indigenous Unity, and the French Retaliate
The Mi'kmaq Defend Their Land (1713-61)
- The Mi'kmaq Declare War
- The Mi'kmaq, Wuastukwiuk, and Wabanaki See Their Allies Lose Ground
Summary
Questions to Consider
Recommended Resources
7 The Struggle against British Colonialism
Chapter Outline
Learning Outcomes
War and Peace
The Seven Years' War
Defeated by Peace
- Obwandiyag (Pontiac)
- The British Response
- Amherst's Brutal Reaction
- The Kanien'keha:ka: Forced to Choose between the British and the Americans
- The Sullivan-Clinton Campaign
Proclamations and Treaties
- The English Approach to Treaties
- Posts and Jay's Treaty
From "Peace and Friendship" to Land Transfers
- The Continuing Process of Land Cessions
Summary
Questions to Consider
Recommended Resources
8 Westward and Northward
Chapter Outline
Learning Outcomes
On the Great Plains
- Horses, Firearms, and Disease: Shifts in Power Balances
- The Siksika and Piikani Leaders Resist Efforts to Disrupt Trade Patterns
- Expansion, Prosperity, and War
In the Far Northwest
- The Europeans Push Further West, into the Plateau
- Sea Otters and China Clippers
- Times of Change-and Conflict-on the West Coast
- Indigenous Interest in Trade
- New Trade Networks Replace the Old, and Societies Are Disrupted
Summary
Questions to Consider
Recommended Resources
9 Indigenous Alliances and Resistance to Settler Expansion in the Western Great Lakes
Chapter Outline
Learning Outcomes
Disruptions from the Peace of Paris
Claims to Right of Conquest
The First Nations Defend the Canadas
Tecumseh
Others who Supported the Pan-Indigenous Cause
Gains and Losses
The End of Tecumseh's Movement
Summary
Questions to Consider
Recommended Resources
10 The "Indian Problem": Isolation, Assimilation, Exploitation, and Experimentation
Chapter Outline
Learning Outcomes
Western Indigenous People Face the Pressures of Settlement
Assimilating the "Vanishing Indians"
Model Villages Would Immerse Indigenous Peoples in Euro-Canadian Culture
Removal and Isolation
More Than Land Lost to Colonial Interests
Indian Administrations
- Arctic and Subarctic People Contend with Missionaries, Whalers, and Fur Traders
- The Mi'kmaq Continue the Fight for Their Land
- Ominous Signs on the Prairies
- Gunboat Diplomacy on the West Coast
Summary
Questions to Consider
Recommended Resources
11 Towards Confederation for Canada, Towards Wardship for Indigenous Peoples
Chapter Outline
Learning Outcomes
"White Man's Burden" or Indigenous Burden?
Who Is an "Indian"?
More Land Surrenders amid Assertion of Resource Rights
Wards of the State
- An Act for the Gradual Enfranchisement of the Indians
- Marrying Out
The West Coast and the "Tsilhqot'in War"
The Métis Strive to Build a Nation
Confederation Brings Centralization-and Western Isolation
Red River Takes a Stand
Summary
Questions to Consider
Recommended Resources
12 The First Numbered Treaties, Police, and the Indian Act
Chapter Outline
Learning Outcomes
The Varied Meanings of "Treaty"
Treaties One, Two, and Three: Ontario and Manitoba Lands
The Liquor Trade
Clearing the Way for European Settlement-Treaties Six and Seven
Assimilation through Legislation: The 1876 Indian Act
An Upward Spiral of Regulation
- The Indian "Advancement" Act
- The Franchise Bill
Summary
Questions to Consider
Recommended Resources
13 Time of Troubles
Chapter Outline
Learning Outcomes
Now That the Bison Are Gone
The Trials of the Métis Continue
- Gabriel Dumont and the St Laurent Council
- Growing Unrest
This Is Our Life, This Is Our Land
Armed Resistance in the West
Immediate Consequences
After the Conflict
Summary
Questions to Consider
Recommended Resources
14 Repression, Control, and Resistance
Chapter Outline
Learning Outcomes
More Consequences for the Nehiyaw ...
... and for the Métis
The Growing Power of the Department of Indian Affairs
Assimilation through Education
- Eastern Schools-"Little or No Good"
- Industrial Schools in Western Canada
The Right to Choose a Chief
The Battle over Reserved Lands
- Commissions and the Allied Tribes of British Columbia
- The First World War and New Pressures on Land
Indigenous People and Canadian Health Care
- The Spanish Influenza Pandemic
- Tuberculosis and Indian Hospitals
- The Inuit, TB, and the Culling of Sled Dogs
Summary
Questions to Consider
Recommended Resources
15 Tightening the Reins: Resistance Grows and Organizes
Chapter Outline
Learning Outcomes
Assimilate "Them" and They Cease to Exist?
Return From War Leads to Organized Action
The Indian Act Revision of 1951
- The Sixties Scoop
The Hawthorn Report
The 1969 White Paper and the Red Paper
Changing Views of Indigenous Education
Growing Indigenous Educational Control
The Haudenosaunee Struggle for Autonomy
Alberta Métis
Indigenous Women Fight for Amended Indian Act
Indigenous Women Organize Nationally
Summary
Questions to Consider
Recommended Resources
16 Development Heads North
Chapter Outline
Learning Outcomes
Trade and Self-Sufficiency
Southerners Come to the North to Stay
Two Views of Inuit/Newcomer Contacts
Northerners Seek Treaty
- Treaty Eight (1899)
- Treaties Nine, Ten (1905-6), and Eleven (1921)
Changing Views on Jurisdiction
- New Strategic Significance for Relocation
Nunavut ("Our Land") Is Born
Summary
Questions to Consider
Recommended Resources
17 Canadian Courts and Aboriginal Rights
Chapter Outline
Learning Outcomes
Treaty Three and the St Catherine's Milling Decision
Hunting, Fishing, Resource, and Land Claims
Turning Points and Setbacks
The Courts Recognize Métis Rights
Indigenous Peoples within the Canadian Criminal Justice System
- Starlight Tours: Racism in Policing the Plains
- Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls
- Colten Bouchie and Tina Fontaine: The Canadian Court System and Indigenous Victims
Summary
Questions to Consider
Recommended Resources
18 The Road to Self-Government
Chapter Outline
Learning Outcomes
The Ongoing Government-Indigenous Relationship
The Push for Resources Underscores the Need for Self-Government
- Mercury Poisoning at Grassy Narrows and Whitedog Reserves
- Hydroelectric Development in Quebec
- Mackenzie Valley Pipeline Inquiry
On the Political Front
Northern Self-Government
Getting Out of the Way of Self-Determination
BC's First Land Claims Agreement: The Nisga'a Treaty
The Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples
- The RCAP Report
Concerns, Hopes, and Fears
Self-Government in Any Context?
United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
The Children Are Our Future
- Application of Jordan's Principle
- Involuntary Sterilization
Summary
Questions to Consider
Recommended Resources
19 From Oka to Wa Dzun Kwuh: Reconciliation, Revitalization, and Resurgence
Chapter Outline
Learning Outcomes
Nearly Three Centuries of Confrontation at Oka
The Ipperwash Crisis
Delgamuukw and Oral History
Caledonia Land Claims
The Wet'suwet'en and the Coastal GasLink Pipeline
Wet'suwet'en and Haudenosaunee Challenges to Governance under the Indian Act
Truth and Reconciliation
Economic Development and Revitalization
Idle No More
Increased Sharing of Indigenous Knowledge
Summary
Questions to Consider
Recommended Resources
Epilogue
Glossary
Index

Instructor's Manual:
Each chapter will contain:
· Chapter outline
· Suggested exercises
· Discussion questions
· Essay questions
· Short answer questions
· Web resources
Test Bank:
Each chapter will contain:
· 25 multiple choice questions
· 20 true or false questions
· 15 short answer questions
· 8 essay questions
Student Study Guide:
Each chapter will contain:
· Chapter outline
· Learning objectives
· Key terms, figures, or sites
· Study questions
· Essay questions
· Additional resources
Image Bank:
Indigenous Artwork Resources:

The late Olive Patricia Dickason was Professor Emeritus at the University of Alberta and adjunct professor of history at the University of Ottawa. She was the author of several books, named a Member of the Order of Canada in 1996, and received the Aboriginal Life Achievement Award, Canadian Native Arts Foundation, in 1997.

William Newbigging is an Adjunct Professor at Laurentian University, where he has taught Indigenous history since 1993. He holds a doctorate in history from the University of Toronto. He is also a long-time research associate of Batchewana First Nation, Mississauga First Nation, Walpole Island First Nation, as well as many other First Nations and associations across Canada and the United States.

Cary Miller is an Associate Professor and Associate Vice President Indigenous: Curriculum, Scholarship, and Research at the University of Manitoba. Her first book, Ogimaag: Anishinaabeg Leadership, 1760-1845 was published by the University of Nebraska Press in 2010. She is Anishinaabe and descends from St. Croix and Leech Lake communities.

Visions of the Heart - Edited by Gina Starblanket, David Long and The late Olive Patricia Dickason
Indigenous Peoples in the Twenty-First Century - James S. Frideres
Racism, Colonialism, and Indigeneity in Canada - Edited by Martin J. Cannon and Lina Sunseri

Special Features

Concise yet comprehensive coverage of the history of Indigenous Peoples within Canada introduces students to the vitality of Indigenous societies before contact, examines the effects of European colonialism, and explores current processes of reconciliation, revitalization, and resurgence.
Indigenous voices and perspectives are centred throughout, and updated terminology and autonyms are used for Indigenous Peoples, nations, and confederacies, honouring the rights of Indigenous Peoples to self-representation and self-determination.
Updated coverage of current events, including the Wet'suwet'en resistance to the Coastal GasLink Pipeline, the Final Report of the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls, and the discovery of mass graves at Kamloops and other residential school sites; links historical patterns to issues of pressing importance today.
New content emphasizes the voices of Indigenous women, bringing a greater focus throughout to women's issues and history.
An expanded transborder perspective presents the history of North America as Indigenous Peoples have always seen it, as one inter-connected whole.
An accessible writing style and robust pedagogical features, including an autonym chart, timelines, maps, and "Historical Background" and "Indigenous Leaders" feature boxes, help students to understand and contextualize historical material.