30. The Indians and the heroic age of New France / Bruce G. Trigger. Ottawa : Canadian Historical Association, 1977. 24 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F80 C16a B64 #30
Issued also in French under title: Les Indiens et l'âge héroique de la Nouvelle-France.
First Nations of North America — Canada — History
Canada — History — To 1763 (New France)
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The conquest of Canada / by the author of Hochelaga. 2nd ed. London : R. Bentley, 1850. 2 v.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F40 W19
First Nations of North America
Canada — History — To 1763.
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The conspiracy of Pontiac and the Indian war after the conquest of Canada / by Francis Parkman. 10th ed., rev. with additions. Boston : Little, Brown and Co., 1897. 2 v. : illustrations, portraits, fold. maps ; 20 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F40 P23 1897 pt.8
Volume 2 is the 9th edition, rev., with additions.
Pontiac's Conspiracy, 1763-1765
First Nations of North America — Canada.
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Nova Francia : a description of Acadia, 1606 / Marc Lescarbot ; tr. by P. Erondelle ; with an introd. by H. P. Biggar. London : Routledge, 1928. xxxi, 346 pages : facsim., maps ; 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F40 L56
Includes reproduction of original t. pages of the translation.
Biggar, Henry Percival, 1872-1938.
First Nations of North America — Nova Scotia
New France — Discovery and exploration
Acadia.
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The Jesuit relations and allied documents : travels and explorations of the Jesuit missionaries in North America (1610-1791) / with an introduction by Reuben Gold Thwaites ; selected and edited by Edna Kenton. New York : Albert & Charles Boni, 1925. liv, 527 pages, [10] pages of plates : illustrations, ports,
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F40 J49
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Kenton, Edna, 1876-1954
Thwaites, Reuben Gold, 1853-1913.
First Nations of North America — Missions
First Nations of North America — Canada
New France — Discovery and exploration.
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Minnesota and its resources : to which are appended camp-fire sketches or notes of a trip from St. Paul to Pembina and Selkirk settlement on the Red River of the north / by J. Wesley Bond. Chicago : Philadelphia : Keen & Lee ; C. Desilver, 1857. 412 pages : illustrations, map ; 19 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - F37.33 B64 M66 - Open Shelf
Belcourt, George Antoine, 1803-1874.
Railroads — Minnesota
First Nations of North America — Minnesota
Minnesota — Description and travel — To 1858
Northwest, Canadian — Description and travel — 1822-1870.
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Sebastian Ralé : a Maine tragedy of the eighteenth century / by John Francis Sprague. Boston, Mass. : Heintzemann Press, 1906. 162 pages, [8] pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 20 c
Nova Scotia Archives Library - F37.2 R13 Sp7 - Open Shelf
First Nations of North America — Maine.
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New England captives carried to Canada between 1677 and 1760, during the French and Indian wars / by Emma Lewis Coleman. Portland, Me. : Southworth Press, 1925. 2 v. : fronts., illus. (map, facsim.) plates, port
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F35 C67 N42
Maps on lining-papers.
First Nations of North America — Captivities
Frontier and pioneer life — New England
New Englanders — Canada
New England — History — Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
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Anthropological papers Washington, D.C. : Govt. Print. Off., 1955. 415 pages, 48 pages of plates : illustrations, music ; 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F29 Sm6b
At head of title: Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology. Includes index.
Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology.
First Nations of North America
Ethnology — North America.
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Mackenzie and his voyageurs : by canoe to the Arctic and the Pacific, 1789-93 / by Arthur P. Woollacott. London ; Toronto : J.M. Dent, 1927. x, 237 pages : illustrations (map) plates. ; 21 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F28 M19 W88
In the preparation of this essay, Mackenzie's narrative, as contained in the original edition of his Voyages, 1801, was used as a basis.--pages v.
First Nations of North America — Canada
Northwest, Canadian — Description and travel — To 1821.
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Travels through the Canadas : containing a description of the picturesque scenery on some of the rivers and lakes, with an account of the productions, commerce, and inhabitants of those provinces : to which is subjoined a comparative view of the manners a / by George Heriot ; illustrated with a map and numerous engravings, from drawings made at the several places by the author. London : Printed for R. Phillips, 1807. xii, 602, [2] pages, [29] pages of plates (7 folded)
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F28 H42 T69
First chapter contains description of the Azores. Part second contains a minute description of the peculiarities of various nations of American aborigines, principally derived from other printed works.--Sabin. Vocabulary of the Algonquin tongue: pages 579-599; Indicative mood of the verb sakia, to love: pages 599-600; Numeration: pages 601-602. Errata: pages xii. Directions for placing the plates: pages [603] Publisher's advertisement: pages [604]
First Nations of North America
Algonquian languages — Dictionaries — English
English language — Dictionaries — Algonquian
Canada — Description and travel — 1764-1867
Azores.
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Travels through the Canadas / by George Heriot. London- : 18--. 232 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F28 H42 T69
Missing title page.
First Nations of North America
Canada — Description and travel — 1764-1867
Azores.
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The literary faculty of the native races of America / by John Reade. Montreal : Dawson Brothers, 1884. p. 17-30 ; 28 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F17 R22
From the Transactions of the Royal Society of Canada, Volume II, Section II, 1884.
Dawson Brothers (Montréal, Quebec)
Royal Society of Canada.
First Nations of North America — Languages
Indians of South America — Languages
Indian literature.
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Handbook of American Indian languages / by Franz Boas. Washington, D.C. : Govt. Print. Off, 1911-. 24 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F17 B63
Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology.
First Nations of North America — Languages.
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The Indian tribes of North America / by John R. Swanton. Washington : U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1952. vi, 726 pages : 4 folded maps ; 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F16 Sw2
First Nations of North America.
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The horse in Blackfoot Indian culture : with comparative material from other Western tribes / by John C. Ewers. Washington, D.C. : Smithsonian Institution Press, 1955. xv, 374 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 24 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F16 Si2 EW3
Siksika Indians — Horses
Horses — Great Plains
First Nations of North America — Great Plains — Horses.
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Glooscap the great chief, and other stories : legends of the Micmacs New York : Sturgis & Walton, 1913. 293 pages : front. (port. group) plates. ; 20 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F16 M58 P25
Most of the stories are adapted from Rand's Legends of the Micmacs.
Glooscap (Legendary character)
Mi'kmaq — Folklore
First Nations of North America — Legends.
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The Algonquin legends of New England, or, Myths and folk lore of the Micmac, Passamaquoddy, and Penobscot tribes / by Charles G. Leland. 2nd ed. Boston : Houghton, Mifflin, 1885, 1884. xv, 379 pages, [12] pages of plates : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F16 L53
Mi'kmaq — Legends
First Nations of North America — Folklore
Passamaquoddy Indians
Penobscot Indians
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David Zeisberger's History of the Northern American Indians / edited by Archer Butler Hulbert and William Nathaniel Schwarze. Columbus : Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society, 1910. ii, 189 pages ; 24 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F15 Ze3
On spine: History of the Northern American Indians. Appeared originally in the regular Quarterly publications of the Society for January and April, 1910.--Pref. Includes index.
Hulbert, Archer Butler, 1873-1933
Schwarze, William Nathaniel, 1875-1948.
Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society.
First Nations of North America
First Nations of North America — New York (State)
First Nations of North America — Pennsylvania
First Nations of North America — Ohio.
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Indian biography : a minute and graphic story of early Indian life in the United States : Indian manners, customs and wars, a valuable compendium to American history / by B. B. Thatcher. Akron, Ohio : Superior Printing Co., 1910. 187 pages ; 19 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F15 T32
First Nations of North America — Social life and customs
First Nations of North America — Wars.
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Glooskap's country, and other Indian tales / illustrated by John A. Hall. Toronto : Oxford University Press, 1955. 273 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F15 M22 G51
First Nations of North America — Legends
First Nations of North America — Canada.
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Canadian wonder tales / by Cyrus Macmillan ; with illustrations in colour by George Sheringham and a foreword by Sir William Peterson. London : John Lane, 1918. xvi, 199 pages : colour front., colour plates ; 27 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F15 M22 C16
Folklore — Canada
First Nations of North America — Folklore.
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The Indians of Canada / by Diamond Jenness. Ottawa : F.A. Acland, printer to the King, 1932. x, 446 pages : colour front., illustrations, colour plates. ; 26 c
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F15 J43i
Folded map in pocket.
First Nations of North America — Canada.
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The American aborigines, their origin and antiquity Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 1933. 396 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F15 J43
A collection of papers by ten authors, assembled and edited by Diamond Jenness; published for presentation at the fifth Pacific Science Congress, Canada, 1933.
Indians — Origin
First Nations of North America — Antiquities
Indians of South America — Antiquities
Man — Migrations.
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Memoirs of a captivity among the Indians of North America, from the author's earliest recollection to his assumption of the habits of civilized life London : Printed by A. & R. Spottiswoode, 1823-. 468 pages ; 22 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F15 H92
Issued with: Manners and customs of several Indian tribes : located west of the Mississippi.
First Nations of North America — Captivities
First Nations of North America — Social life and customs.
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