Assignment 1: Annotated Bibliography
Prepare a 1,000-word annotated bibliography that considers five (5) books you are intending to use for your essay assignment (Assignment 2). For each book, briefly review the author’s thesis, the sources the author uses as evidence, and the strengths and weaknesses of the author’s argument. Explain the usefulness of the book to your essay topic.
Note: You can choose from but are not restricted to the following list:
Alcantra, Christopher. Negotiating the Deal: Comprehensive Land Claims in Canada. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2013.
Asch, Michael. On Being Here to Stay: Treaty and Aboriginal Rights in Canada. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2014.
Axtell, James. The Invasion Within: The Contest of Cultures in Colonial North America. New York: Oxford University Press, 1985.
Bishop, Charles A. The Northern Ojibwa and the Fur Trade: An Ethnohistorical and Ecological Study. Toronto: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 1974.
Blackburn, Carole. Harvest of Souls: The Jesuit Missions and Colonialism in North America, 1632-1650. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2000.
Brandao, Jose Antonio, ed. Nation Iroquoise: A Seventeenth-Century Ethnography of the Iroquois. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2003.
Brandao, Jose Antonio, Your Fyre Shall Burn No More: Iroquois Policy to New France and Its Native Allies to 1701. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1997.
Brown, J.S.H. Strangers in Blood: Fur Trade Families in Indian Country. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 1980.
Brownlie, Robin Jarvis. A Fatherly Eye: Indian Agents, Government Power, and Aboriginal Resistance in Ontario. Toronto: Oxford University Press, 2003.
Carter, Sarah. Aboriginal People and Colonizers of Western Canada to 1900. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1999.
Daschuk, James William. Clearing the Plains: Disease, Politics of Starvation, and the Loss of Aboriginal Life. Regina: University of Regina Press, 2014.
Dickason, Olive Patricia. The Myth of the Savage. Edmonton: University of Alberta Press, 1984.
Dowd, Gregory Evans. War Under Heaven: Pontiac, the Indian Nations, and the British Empire. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002.
Eber, Dorothy Harley. Encounters on the Passage: Inuit Meet the Explorers. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2008.
Elsey, Christine. The Poetics of Land and Identity among British Columbia Indigenous People. Halifax: Fernwood, 2013.
Ens, Gerhard J. and Joe Sawchuk, From New Peoples to New Nations: Aspects of Mtis History and Identity from the Eighteenth to the Twenty- first Centuries. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2015.
Fisher, Robin. Contact and Conflict: Indian-European Relations in British Columbia, 1174-1890. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 1977.
Flanagan, Thomas. Riel and the Rebellion 1885 Reconsidered. Saskatoon: Western Producer Prairie Books, 1983.
Grant, John Webster. Moon of Wintertime: Missionaries and the Indians in Canada in Encounters since 1534. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1984.
Greer, Allan. Mohawk Saint: Catherine Tekakwitha and the Jesuits. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005.
Hedican, Edward J. Ipperwash: the Tragic Failure of Canada’s Aboriginal Policy. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2013.
Heidenreich, Conrad. Huronia: A History and Geography of the Huron Indians, 16001615. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1971.
Hickerson, Harold. The Chippewa and their Neighbors: A Study in Ethnohistory. Prospect Heights, Illinois: Waveland Press, 1988.
Hunt, George. The Wars of the Iroquois: A Study in Intertribal Trade Relations. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1940.
Jacobs, Wilbur R. Wilderness Politics and Indian Gifts: The Northern Colonial Frontier, 1748-1763. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1950.
Jaenen, Cornelius. Friend and Foe: Aspects of French-Amerindian Cultural Contact in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries. New York: Columbia University Press, 1976.
Jennings, Francis. The Ambiguous Iroquois Empire. New York: W.W. Norton, 1984.
Jennings, Francis. Empire of Fortune: Crowns, Colonies, and Tribes in the Seven Years War in America. New York: W.W. Norton, 1988.
Jennings, Francis. The Invasion of America: Indians, Colonialism, and the Cant of Conquest. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1975.
Keesing, Felix M. The Menominee Indians of Wisconsin: A Study of Three Centuries of Cultural Contact and Change. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1987.
Kinietz, Vernon. The Indians of the Western Great Lakes, 1615-1760. Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 1987.
King, Sarah J. Fishing in Contested Waters: Place and Community in Burnt Church/Esgenoopetiti. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2013.
Labelle, Kathryn Magee. Dispersed but not Destroyed: A History of the Seventeenth-Century Wendat People. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2013.
Manuel, Arthur and Grand Chief Ronald Derrickson. The Reconciliation Manifesto: Recovering the Land, Rebuilding the Economy. Toronto: Lorimer, 2017.
Martin, Calvin. Keepers of the Game: Indian Animal Relationships in the Fur Trade. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1978.
McCormack, Patricia A. Fort Chipewyan and the Shaping of Canadian History, 17881920s. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2010.
McDonnell, Michael. Masters of Empire: Great Lakes Indians and the Making of North America. New York: Hill and Wang, 2015.
McInnes, Brian D. Sounding Thunder: the Stories of Francis Pegahmagabow. Winnipeg: University of Manitoba Press, 2016.
McKenna, M. Olga. Micmac by Choice. Halifax: Formac Publishing, 1990.
Meresty, Joseph Auguste with David Carpenter. The Education of Augie Meresty: a Residential School Memoir. Regina: University of Regina Press, 2015.
Metatawabin, Edmund. Up Ghost River: a Chief’s Journey through the Turbulent Waters of Native History. Toronto: Vintage, 2015.
Miller, J.R. Shingwauk’s Vision. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1996.
Miller, J.R. Residential Schools and Reconciliation: Canada Confronts its Past. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2017.
Miller, J.R. Compact, Contract, Covenant: Aboriginal Treaty Making in Canada. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2009.
Milloy, John S. A National Crime: The Canadian Government and the Residential School System, 1879-1986. Winnipeg: University of Manitoba Press, 1999.
Norton, Thomas Elliot. The Fur Trade in Colonial New York. Madison: The University of Wisconsin Press, 1974.
Paquette, Jerry and Grald Fallon, First Nations Education Policy in Canada: Progress or Gridlock. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2010.
Peckham, Howard H. Pontiac and the Indian Uprising. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1947.
Podruchny, Carolyn. Making the Voyageur World: Travelers and Traders in the North American Fur Trade. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2006.
Quimby, George Irving. Indian Culture and European Trade Goods. Madison: The University of Wisconsin Press, 1966.
Rajnovich, Grace. Reading Rock Art: Interpreting the Indian Rock Paintings of the Canadian Shield. Toronto: Natural Heritage, 1994.
Ray, Arthur J. and Donald Freeman. “Give Us Good Measure:” An Economic Analysis of Relations between the Indians and the Hudson’s Bay Company before 1763. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1978.
Reid, Jennifer. Louis Riel and the Creation of Modern Canada: Mythic Discourse and the Postcolonial State. Winnipeg: University of Manitoba Press, 2012.
Richter, Daniel K. The Ordeal of the Longhouse: The Peoples of the Iroquois League in the Era of European Colonization.
Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1992.
Schmalz, Peter S. The Ojibwa of Southern Ontario. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1991.
Sherwin, Allan. Bridging Two Peoples: Chief Peter Jones, 1843-1909. Waterloo: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2013.
Smith, Donald B. Mississauga Portraits: Ojibwe Voices from Nineteenth-Century Canada. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2013.
Steckley, John. Indian Agents: Rulers of the Reserves. New York: Peter Lang, 2009.
Stobie, Margaret. The Other Side of the Rebellion: The Remarkable Story of Charles Bremner and his Furs. Edmonton: Newest Press, 1986.
Sword, Wiley. President Washington’s Indian War: The Struggle for the Old Northwest. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1985.
Talaga, Tanya. Seven Fallen Feathers: Racism, Death, and Hard Truths in a Northern City. Toronto: House of Anansi, 2017.
Trigger, Bruce G. The Children of Aataentsic: A History of the Huron People to 1660. Kingston and Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 1976.
Trigger, Bruce G. Natives and Newcomers. Kingston and Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 1985.
Van Kirk, Sylvia. Many Tender Ties: Women in Fur Trade Society, 1670-1870. Winnipeg: Watson and Dwyer, 1980.
Webkamigad, Howard. Ottawa Stories from the Springs. East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 2015.
Winegard, Timothy. For King and Kanata: Canadian Indians and the First World War. Winnipeg: University of Manitoba Press, 2012.

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