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Maps on lining papers. In The Myth of the Savage, Olive P. Dickason explores Europe's response to the richly varied spectrum of Amerindian societies during the late fifteenth, sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Renaissance Europeans assessed New World information in the light of Christian orthodoxy and practical political ideology, using the concept of savagery to explain the New World peoples.

Olive Patricia Dickason CM (1920–2011) was a Métis Canadian historian and journalist. The myth of the savage : and the beginnings of French colonialism in the Americas. Edmonton: University of Alberta Press. She was a key figure in the study of Aboriginal history in Canada's academic world. Dickason, Olive Patricia (1991). "For every plant there is a use" : the botanical world of Mexica and Iroquoians". In Abel, Kerry M; Friesen, Jean (ed. Aboriginal resource use in Canada : historical and legal aspects. Winnipeg: University of Manitoba Press. Olive Patricia Dickason (1992).

Olive Patricia Dickason. Second, it considers how these notions of savagery shaped and influenced French approaches to colonialism in and of the New World in the 16th and 17th centuries. A classic study of early contact between European explorers and North American natives.

Efforts to establish that one form was civilized while the other was savage could result in some strained exposition as when, in the seventeenth century, the Jesuit Jean-Paul Mercier tried to explain the French use of torture to a Huron. This study is not about the clash of civilizations; as anthropologist . Hallowell has observed, cultures do not clash - people do. However, the reactions aroused in such encounters are profoundly influenced by the cultural orientations of the individuals involved.

Savage and the Beginnings of French Colonialism in the Americas. by Olive Patricia Dickason.

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Olive Patricia Dickason has written: 'The myth of the savage'. A Concise History of Canada's First Nations'. Myth of the Savage and the Beginnings of French Colonialism in the Americas'. When was Olive Dickason born? Olive Dickason was born on March 6, 1920, in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. When did Olive Dickason die? Olive Dickason died on March 12, 2011, in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. What has the author Edna Olive written? Edna Olive has written: 'PBF'.

and the beginnings of French colonialism in the Americas. Published 1984 by University of Alberta Press in Edmonton, Alta. America, Attitudes, Bon sauvage, Colonies, Discovery and exploration, First contact with Europeans, France, French, Histoire, History, Indians of North America, Indiens d'Amérique, Indiens d'Amérique, Attitude envers les, Premiers contacts avec les Européens, Treatment of Indians.

Three months later, Olive Dickason returned with a finished thesis – Louisburg and the Indians: A. .Four years later, at 57, Dickason's doctoral dissertation, The Myth of the Savage and the Beginning of French Colonialism in the Americas, was published by the University of Alberta Press.

Three months later, Olive Dickason returned with a finished thesis – Louisburg and the Indians: A Study in Imperial Race Relations 1713-1760 – and a new ambition: to complete a PhD in native Canadian history. Story continues below advertisement. It was the first in a series of books by Dickason that have since become canonical, including Canada's First Nations – A History of Founding Peoples from Earliest Times (now in its fourth printing).