Download or read book A Concise History of Canada's First Nations written by Olive Patricia Dickason and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2006 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Concise History of Canada's First Nations is a concise version of thebestselling history of Canada's original inhabitants, Indians, Inuit, and Metis.Using an interdisciplinary approach that combines the techniques from history,anthropology, and archaeology, Dickason and Calder trace the history of the morethan 50 First Nations in the territory that is now Canada, beginning with thearrival of people in North America across the Bering Strait many thousands ofyears ago.