This collection of essays deals with the development of Native American art history as a discipline.

Clarence Bolt demonstrates that the Aboriginal peoples of Canada were conscious participants in the acculturation and conversion process -- as long as this met their goals.

This provides the context for a better understanding of these issues and traces the evolution of an innovative, increasingly indigenous, governmental process.

The first book to pay serious attention to the European economic and political factors which promoted colonization, this book argues that the prime determinant was the uneven development of agricultural systems in western Europe.

A comprehensive survey of the Indigenous Peoples of the world, including who they are, where they live, and similarities in their history and future challenges.

The struggle of the Witsuwit'en peoples to establish the meaning of aboriginal rights.

Douglas Cole Examines the process of anthropological collecting on the Northwest Coast between 1875 and the Great Depression, in the context of the development of museums and anthropology.

This book provides the first systematic and comparative treatment of the social policy of assimilation that was followed in these three countries.

A critical ethnography of the Native Education Centre in Vancouver, British Columbia.

Written mainly by First Nations and Metis people, this book examines current issues in First Nations education.