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Histories of Indigenous Peoples and Canada

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The preface introduces you to some of the practices and challenges of Indigenous history, focusing on the nature and quality of sources, innovative historical methodologies, and the leading historiographical trends (that is, what historians are thinking very broadly and what they have studied in the last decade or four). It turns, then, to histories of Indigenous peoples in the Western Hemisphere before ca. 1500.

The twelve chapters that follow are arranged under three headings: Commerce and Allies, Engaging Colonialism, and Culture Crisis Change Challenge. And there is a thirteenth chapter that brings us deep enough into the twenty-first century to allow a visit with two of the most important recent developments in Canadian civic life: Idle No More and the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. Both of these processes arose from the failures of colonialism and the resilience of Indigenous communities. They reveal, therefore, as much about the history of Canada as they do of the historical experiences of Indigenous peoples.

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John Belshaw, Sarah Nickel, Chelsea Horton
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Thompson Rivers University
Publish Date
2020
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Undergraduate
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Stéphane-D. Perreault, Red Deer College
I do, with some minor caveats: I would like to see it beefed-up somewhat to have a better balanced coverage of historical experiences from coast to coast and across diverse time-frames. I also found that the stories of the Métis and Inuit are underr...„
Reviewed on 6/13/2021

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