Indigenous peoples -- Canada -- History, Canada -- History -- to 1763 (New France), Canada -- History -- To 1663 (New France), Anthropology, Indigenous peoples -- Canada -- Antiquities 

"A critical re-evaluation of the impact of the two cultures - native and European - on each other. A revisionist narrative history of the period providing a detailed survey of the stereotypes of native people that have distorted the development of Canadian history and anthropology, and shows how historical, ethnohistorical, ethnographical, physical anthropological, economic, palaeodemographic, and archaeological approaches can and cannot be combined to produce a more accurate understanding of the past."--WorldCat.org. 

xiii, 430 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm. 

Contents:
1. The Indian image in Canadian history [anthropology, Charlevoix tradition, Victorian anthropology, etc.] --
2. Before history [prehistory, archaeology, prehistoric hunter-gatherers, transition to food-producation, consolidation of village life, etc.] --
The Approach of the Europeans, 1497-1600 [Boasian anthropology, ethnographic present, early Europeans contact, Jacques Cartier, disappearance of the St. Lawrence Iroquoians, etc.] --
Traders and colonizers, 1600-1632 [fur trade and warfare, nature of Indian trade, European traders, French administrators, Missionaries, Impact on Native peoples [Aboriginal, First Nations], etc.] --
Plagues and preachers, 1632-1663 [Jesuits, killing years, epidemics, converstions and factionalism, destruction of the Hurons, Iroquois Supremacy, Iroquois missions, etc.] --
Who founded New France? [northern El Dorado, monopolists and free traders, colonizers against traders, Jesuit mission colony, etc.]

Includes index.