1. Beginnings

A. Turtle Island - Time Before History PDF Version

Origins, First Nations and Origins, The Evidence From Stone Tools and DNA, The Mass Extinction of Megafauna, New Hunting and Fishing Cultures, Culture and Settlement, The Written Record

B. The First People Before Contact - East

Adapting to the Environment, Algonkians of Eastern North America, Newfoundland's Beothuk, Mi'kmaq, Maliseet & Abenaki, Abenaki & Passamaquoddy, Northeastern Woodlands Cree and Ojibwa (Anishinabe), Montagnais, Naskapi & Attikamek, Algonquin & Nipissing, Anishinabe Nation - Ojibwa, Ottawa & Potawatomi, Eastern Woodland Iroquoians

C. The First People Before Contact - West

The Plains People of Western North America, The Plateau People, The Athapascans of Northern BC, the Yukon and NWT, The Interior Salish, The Kootenay Nation, Pacific Coast Aboriginal Peoples, Southern Salish Groups, People of the Northwest Pacific Coast, The Inuit of Today

D. The Coming of the Europeans - Contact to Cartier

Europeans Seeking Profit, The Norse, Beginning of European Exploration, Fishing and First Nations, Voyages of Jacques Cartier, Early Impact of Europeans on First Nations

E. Early First Nations-French Relations

Fur Trade & First Settlement, Importance of the First Nations to the French, Maritime Settlement, Champlain Founds Quebec, Brulé, Vignau and the Huron, Huron Trading Relationship, Missionaries and Warfare 1635 to 1663, Warfare and the Dispersal of the Huron, Effect of Iroquois Wars, Frenchification, Warfare, 1663 to 1701

F. Conflict and Change

French and Indian Wars, New France's Native Policy, British Native Policy, Early Conflicts, 1701-1754, Seven Years War, French Victories & Final Defeat, Pontiac's Resistance, Royal Proclamation of 1763

G. Upper Canada and the First Nations, 1780s to 1820s

Loyalists & First Nations, Ontario Aboriginals, American Revolution, Iroquois Loyalists, Early Relations with First Nations, Early Treaties, Toronto Purchase, Tecumseh Uprising, War of 1812

H. The Northern Fur Trade, 1667-1860

Aboriginal People & Fur Trade, Hudson's Bay Company Origins, Early HBC-Cree Relations, Trade Goods & Exchange, Company Policy & Cree Women, French Competition, Expansion of the Northern Fur Trade, First Nations Women & the Northern Fur Trade, Competition, 1764-1821, Monopoly Period, Métis & First Nations, 1821-1860s, West Coast Fur Trade

I. First Nations in Atlantic Canada, to 1867

Maritime Challenges, Eastern First Nations in the 1800s, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island

J. First Nations in Western North America, 1840-1870

Western Differences, The Prairies, Buffalo Wars, British Columbia, Beginning of Colonial Rule

K. From Warriors to Wards, 1815-1867

Changes in First Nations-Canadian Relations, Canada's New Civilization Policy, Model Communities, Peter Jones & Credit River Mission, Treaties, 1815-60