From: The Encyclopedia of Canada's Peoples/Aboriginals: Algonquians/ Eastern Woodlands/Janet E Chute
One of the best introductions to the Eastern Woodland Algonquians may be found in volume 15 of the Handbook of North American Indians, edited by Bruce Trigger and published by the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, in 1978. In addition, ethnographic monographs exist for individual groups. Those interested are encouraged to consult works by Edward S. Rogers on the Ojibwa, Frank G. Speck on the Mi’kmaq, W.H. Mechling on the Malecite, and Wilson D. and Ruth Sawtell Wilson on both the Mi’kmaq and the Malecite. An interesting recent study of an Ojibwa community appears in Edward J. Hedican, Applied Anthropology in Canada: Understanding Aboriginal Issues (Toronto, 1995).
There are several general works in which Eastern Woodland Algonquians are featured at length. These include John Webster Grant, Moon of Wintertime: Missionaries and the Indians in Encounter since 1534 (Toronto, 1984); Laura Peers, The Ojibwa of Western Canada (Winnipeg, 1994); Boyce Richardson, ed., Drumbeat: Anger and Renewal in Indian Country (Toronto, 1989), sponsored by the Assembly of First Nations; Edward S. Rogers and Donald B. Smith, eds., Aboriginal Ontario: Historical Perspectives on the First Nations (Toronto, 1994); Bruce Trigger, Natives and Newcomers: Canada’s Heroic Age Reconsidered (Montreal, 1985); L.F.S. Upton, Micmacs and Colonists: Indian-White Relations in the Maritimes, 1713–1867 (Vancouver, 1979); and Ruth Holmes Whitehead, The Old Man Told Us: Excerpts from Micmac History, 1500– 1950 (Halifax, 1991).
Information on residential schools is provided in J.R. Miller, Shingwauk’s Vision: A History of Native Residential Schools (Toronto, 1996). Population declines along the eastern seaboard are dealt with in two articles by Virginia Miller: “Aboriginal Micmac Population: A Review of the Evidence,” Ethnohistory, vol.23, no. 3 (1982), 117– 27; and “The Decline of the Nova Scotia Micmac Population, A.D. 1600-1850,” Culture, vol.2, 107–20. A third source is Dean R. Snow and Kim M. Lanphear, “European Contact and Indian Depopulation in the Northeast: The Timing of the First Epidemics,” Ethnohistory, vol.35, no.1 (1988), 14–33.
