A History of the Native People of Canada
- ISBN-10
- 066015952X
- ISBN-13
- 9780660159522
- Category
- History
- Pages
- 614
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1995
- Publisher
- Hull, Quebec : Canadian Museum of Civilization
- Authors
- Canadian Museum of Civilization, James Vallière Wright
Description
This volume begins with the spread of Ice Age hunters across a land mass that once joined Asia and North America at a time when most of the country was covered by glacial ice and when animals such as mammoth and sabre-toothed cats occupied the tundra and lichen woodlands.
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- 2004
- 486 pages
- Paperback
- Canadian Mus of Civilization
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