A Concise History of Canada's First Nations

A Concise History of Canada's First Nations. Olive Patricia Dickason, adapted by Morira Jean Calder. Toronto: Oxford University Press, 2006. 387 pp. incl. list of National Historic Sites of Canada Commemorating Aboriginal History, glossary, web sites, notes, index. $49.95 sc. Although purported to be the fourth edition of Olive Dickason's watershed work Canada's First Nations, except for some of its contents, this book bears little resemblance to the original volume. Written at a high school level and for a lay audience, the book will hopefully realize record sales in an entirely new social sector. If the new format assures a wider reading audience, all will be well. Dickason's work deserves to be read by all Canadians. of the highlights of the new format include an extremely attractive cover of a painting (Loon Family at Sunset by Samuel Ash), photographs, maps, drawings, shaded boxed bits of relevaSnt information, lists of important names and terms for each chapter, and recommended readings. text is clear and the language straightforward. Appropriately inserted time lines help the reader decipher exactly where the information being presented fits into the broader picture of history. A Concise History of Canada's First Nations contains seventeen chapters. first is aptly titled At the Beginning (chpt. 1), and it ends with The Road to Self-Government. Between those chapters, the reader learns about such phenomena as Some Amerindian-Colonial Wars (chpt. 4), The 'Indian Problem': Isolation, Assimilation, and Experimentation (chpt. 9), The First Numbered Treaties, Police, and the Indian Act (chpt. 11), and Canadian Courts and Aboriginal Rights (chpt. 16). final three chapters on northern development, Aboriginal rights, and self-government provide up-to-date information about these important developments. establishment of Nunavut in 1999 coincided with the centenary of the signing of Treaty Eight and revealed the emergence of new strategies on the part of northern First Nations. Their sense of revitalization motivated them to demand full partnership when negotiating land settlements and discussions pertaining to economic development. Further south, the origin of the warrior movement that highlighted the Oka tragedy underscored the fact that First Nations are a political force to be bargained with. As proof of Aboriginal persistence, it should be noted that it took almost 200 years to negotiate and ratify the Nisga'a Treaty, and the decision to accept oral history as evidence in court helped conclude the matter. …

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