Indians of Canada by Diamond Jenness
First published in 1932, The Indians of Canada remains the most comprehensive works available on Canada's Indians. Part one includes chapters on languages, economic conditions, food resources, hunting and fishing, dress and adornment, dwellings, travel and transportation, trade and commerce, social and political organization, social life, religion, folklore and traditions, and drama, music, and art. The second part of the book describes the tribes in different groupings: the migratory tribbes of the eastern woodlands, the plains tribes, tribes of the Pacific coast, of the Cordillera, and the Mackenzie and Yukon River basins, and finally the Eskimo.
Diamond Jenness (1886-1969) was born in New Zealand. Jenness attended Victoria University College and graduated with first class honors in 1908. Later he studied at Balliol College, Oxford. He received both a B.A. in Lit. Hum. and a diploma in Anthropology at Oxford in 1911. From 1911 to 1912 he was
designated Oxford Scholar in Papua and was sent by the university to make anthropological studies among the Northern d'Entrecasteaux off the east coast of New Guinea. The results of this first fieldwork were published as The Northern d'Entrecasteaux (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1920). From 1913 to 1916
he served as ethnologist with the Canadian Arctic Expedition. He is remembered as a trailblazing anthropologist and a highly distinguished Arctic scholar. Barnett Richling is a senior scholar in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Winnipeg.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780802022868 |
| ISBN 10 | 0802022863 |
| Title | Indians of Canada |
| Author | Diamond Jenness |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | University of Toronto Press |
| Year published | 1978-04-01 |
| Number of pages | 460 |
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