Five Hundred Generations – Canada

It conveys the many challenges that Aboriginal people confronted, and celebrates their enduring legacy. Berry and Brink explore grassroots political and cultural movements of the 1960s, contemporary self-government initiatives, and the ongoing reclamation of the Aboriginal voice.

Contents:

●     How archaeological information about our First peoples is gathered
●     Tools
●     Buffalo-hunts, jumps, uses, food processing
●     Seasonal living
●     Different historical art forms such as rockpaintings, carvings (bone, stone and antler)
●     Traditional ways of living in the north, south, plains
●     Dene, Blackfoot, Cree, Métis peoples
●     The fur trade: alliances,role of women, impacts, disease, decline
●     Living from the land
●     Spirituality and Sacred sites

Keywords: Native Studies / Western Canadian History
Subjects: HISTORY / Canada / General, Native Studies / Western Canadian History, Indigenous Studies, Canadian History, Alberta History
Publisher: The University of Alberta Press