A History Of The Native People Of Canada: A.D. 500-European Contact; Maritime Algonquian, St. Lawrence Iroquois, Ontario Iroquois, Glen Meyer/western ... Northern Algonquian Cultures (Mercury Series) [Paperback]

J. V. Wright (Author)

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Series: Mercury Series | Publication Date: March 30, 2005

Part 1 of the final volume of A History of the Native People of Canada treats eastern Canada and the southern Subarctic regions of the Prairies. It examines the association of archaeological sites with the Native peoples recorded in European documents and particularly the agricultural revolution of the Iroquoian people of the Lower Great Lakes and Upper St. Lawrence River.

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James V. Wright is curator emeritus of the Canadian Museum of Civilization.

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• Paperback: 486 pages
• Publisher: Canadian Mus of Civilization (March 30, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 066019175X
• ISBN-13: 978-0660191751
• Product Dimensions: 9.5 x 6.7 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
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5.0 out of 5 stars study of Canadian Native Americans, March 29, 2005

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This review is from: A History Of The Native People Of Canada: A.D. 500-European Contact; Maritime Algonquian, St. Lawrence Iroquois, Ontario Iroquois, Glen Meyer/western ... Northern Algonquian Cultures (Mercury Series) (Paperback)

This is the first part of an anthropological text that was divided into two parts to accommodate all of the relevant new material that was surfacing as it was being published. The Part One focuses on the Maritime Algonquin, St. Lawrence and Ontario Iroquois, the Native Americans of the Glen Meyer/Western Basin, and the Northern Algonquin cultures. The geographical area encompassed in this Part is eastern Canada to the Prairie provinces and northward to the subarctic regions of this wide stretch of present-day Canada and parts of the United States. The Great Lakes area is also included. In accordance with a basically anthropological work, the abundant and diverse matter is divided into scientific-like sections such as cultural origins and descendants, subsistence, settlement patterns, cosmology, and external relationships for each of the identifiable Native American groups. The only note of history brought into the material is discussion of the major cultural changes brought on by the Agricultural Revolution beginning about 500A.D. The pages are numbered from 1185 to 1666 since the work is part of a series; although it stands alone in compiling the anthropological matter in the field it has outlined and picturing much of this in photographic plates.