New Histories for Old : Changing Perspectives on Canada's Native Pasts.

Intro -- Contents -- Maps -- Introduction -- 1 Arthur J. Ray and the Writing of Aboriginal History -- 2 Rupert's Land, Nituskeenan, Our Land: Cree and English Naming and Claiming around the Dirty Sea -- 3 Echo of the Crane: Tracing Anishnawbek and Métis Title to Bawating (Sault Ste. Marie) -- 4 Compact, Contract, Covenant: The Evolution of Indian Treaty-Making -- 5 Smallpox along the Frontier of the Plains Borderlands at the Turn of the Twentieth Century -- 6 Mapping the New El Dorado: The Fraser River Gold Rush and the Appropriation of Native Space -- 7 Innovation, Tradition, Colonialism, and Aboriginal Fishing Conflicts in the Lower Fraser Canyon -- 8 Meanings of Mobility on the Northwest Coast -- 9 "Choose Your Flag": Perspectives on the Tsimshian Migration from Metlakatla, British Columbia, to New Metlakatla, Alaska, 1887 -- 10 Gitxsan Law and Settler Disorder: The Skeena "Uprising" of 1888 -- 11 Arthur J. Ray and the Empirical Opportunity -- Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- W -- X -- Y.

The collection combines essays by prominent senior historians, geographers, and anthropologists with contributions by new voices in these fields, to shed new light on the history of scholarship on Canada's Aboriginal past.

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