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Historical Disciplines and Subjects -- First Nations and Metis

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Kwagiulth Museum and Cultural Centre

The Kwagiulth Museum and Cultural Centre on Quadra Island opposite Campbell River, Vancouver Island, was opened in 1979 to preserve some of the returned 'Potlatch Collection' of ceremonial objects con...

http://www.crcn.net/arts/museum/kwaguilt/index.htm

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Mystery Quests

Utilizing documentary information presented in the various Great Unsolved Mysteries in Canada History Web sites, Mystery Quests provides another approach to utilizing the wealth of historical resource...

http://www.mysteryquests.ca

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National Aboriginal Documents Database

Contains a range of full-text documents relating to Canadian Aboriginal land claims issues. The documents can be browsed by category or searched by keyword.

http://www.landclaimsdocs.com

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Native Peoples of Canada 1500s

A Canada's Digital Collections providing an overview of First Nations cultures in Canada at the time of wide-scale contact with European explorers in the 1500s. This site is one of 26 chapters of "A C...

http://epe.lac-bac.gc.ca/100/205/301/ic/cdc/nativepeoples/de...

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Nisga'a, Legends of the Nass

Funded in part by Canada's Digital Collections, this site, based on Nisga'a oral tradition, animates several stories from Nisga'a culture. Some parts of the site require Macromedia Flash or Shockwave ...

http://epe.lac-bac.gc.ca/100/205/301/ic/cdc/nisgaa/default.h...

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Project for the Protection and Repatriation of First Nation Cultural Heritage in Canada

"This research program, lead by Professor Bell ( University of Alberta) and Professor Paterson ( U.B.C. Law) will examine Canadian legislation affecting ownership, protection and control of First Nati...

http://www.law.ualberta.ca/research/aboriginalculturalherita...

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Research and Publications Site of Dr. James McDonald

Web site of University of Northern British Columbia professor of anthropology and First Nations Studies, Dr. James Andrew McDonald, who is also a participant in the Kitsumkalum Social History Research...

http://mcdonald.unbc.ca/index.htm

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Salmon on the Skeena

Illustrates and describes the importance of the salmon fishery on the Skeena River to the First Nations and white entrepreneurs, including salmon cannery operators, between 7000 BC and 1920 AD.

http://epe.lac-bac.gc.ca/100/205/301/ic/cdc/salmonstory/defa...

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Simon Fraser, the Birth of British Columbia

A three-part illustrated online account published by the Vancouver Sun newspaper and written by Stephen Hume to provide background to readers on the exploratory work of Simon Fraser whose bicen...

http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/features/fraser/index1.ht...

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Slumach, A Web site for all who prefer facts over fiction

Summary from the front page: "This site is about an elderly Native man known as Slumach who once lived where the Pitt River flows out of Pitt Lake. In 1891 he was hanged in New Westminster for the mur...

http://www.slumach.ca/

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