A History of the Native People of Canada, Volume III, Part 1 (A.D. 500-European Contact).A History of the Native People of Canada, Volume III, Part 1 (A.D. 500-European Contact) J. V. Wright Canadian Museum of Civilization The Canadian Museum of Civilization (CMC) is Canada’s national museum of human history and the most-visited museum in the country.[1] It is located in Gatineau, Quebec, directly across the Ottawa River from Canada’s Parliament Buildings. , Quebec dist. in U.S. by U. of Washington Press PO Box 50096, Seattle, WA 98145-5096 066019175X $45.00 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 Eastern Canada (also the Eastern provinces) is the region of Canada generally considered to be east of Manitoba, consisting of the following provinces:
adj. Of or resembling regions just south of the Arctic Circle. subarctic Relating to the geographic area just south of the Arctic Circle. regions of this wide stretch of present-day Canada and parts of the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. . The Great Lakes Great Lakes, group of five freshwater lakes, central North America, creating a natural border between the United States and Canada and forming the largest body of freshwater in the world, with a combined surface area of c.95,000 sq mi (246,050 sq km). 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. |
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