I Have Lived Here Since the World Began: An Illustrated History of Canada's Native People (original 2005; edition 1998)

by Arthur J. Ray

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"Canada's Native people have inhabited this land since the Ice Age and were already accomplished traders, artisans, farmers and marine hunters when Europeans first reached their shores. Contact between Natives and European explorers and settlers initially presented an unprecedented period of growth and opportunity. But the two vastly different cultures soon clashed. Arthur J. Ray charts the history of Canada's Native people from first contact to current land claims. The result is a fascinating chronicle that spans 12,000 years and culminates in the headlines of today."--… (more)

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Title:	I Have Lived Here Since the World Began: An Illustrated History of Canada's Native People
Authors:	Arthur J. Ray
Info:	Key Porter Books (1998), Hardcover, 448 pages
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I Have Lived Here Since the World Began: An Illustrated History of Canada's Native People by Arthur J. Ray (2005)

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Quite well written and comprehensive book on Canada’s First Nations’ history since the earliest records/ oral legends, through the first European contact, until the latest court battles of the 20th and 21st century. Really liked the fact that the author put a lot of emphasis on the economic relations between the Indians and new settlers, but was losing my interest at the descriptions of the battles and wars. Also it’s quite an academic book, so it’s not the easiest to read at times. Read it in order to get some understanding of the current aboriginal issues and the background to them and as such it was a brilliant informative book. Would recommend it to all interested in First Nations history or in North American history in general. (

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BC and Yukon Book Prizes (Shortlist – Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize – 1997)

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They came to wigwam. It was a long wigwam with a door at each end. The man inside the wigwam said, "I have lived here since the world began. I have my grandmother, she was here when the world was made..."
- Mi'kmaq folktale (1800s)

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Until the early 1970s, Canada's Aboriginal people were largely ignored by historians, who treated them as part of the background in their heroic stories about the great Euro-Canadian men who had built the country.

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"Canada's Native people have inhabited this land since the Ice Age and were already accomplished traders, artisans, farmers and marine hunters when Europeans first reached their shores. Contact between Natives and European explorers and settlers initially presented an unprecedented period of growth and opportunity. But the two vastly different cultures soon clashed. Arthur J. Ray charts the history of Canada's Native people from first contact to current land claims. The result is a fascinating chronicle that spans 12,000 years and culminates in the headlines of today."--

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