| Drum Songs: Glimpses of Dene History Volume 115 Contributor(s): Abel, Kerry (Author) |
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ISBN: 0773530037 ISBN-13: 9780773530034 Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press OUR PRICE: $31.30 Product Type: Paperback Published: July 2005 Annotation: The Dene nation consists of twelve thousand people speaking five distinct languages spread over 1.8 million square kilometres in the Canadian subarctic. In the 1970s and 1980s, the campaign against the Mackenzie Valley pipeline, support for the leadership of Georges Erasmus in the Assembly of First Nations, and land claim negotiations put the Dene on the leading edge of Canada's native rights movement. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Ethnic Studies - Native American Studies - History | Canada - General - History | Native American |
| Dewey: 971.900 |
| Lexile Measure: 1530 |
| Series: McGill-Queen's Studies in Ethnic History; Series One |
| Physical Information: 0.78" H x 6.02" W x 8.92" (1.19 lbs) 368 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Canadian - Ethnic Orientation - Native American |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 'Drum Songs' examines the history of the Dene, one of the aboriginal peoples of Canada's western subarctic, from ancient times to the present. |