An Aboriginal Presence

An Aboriginal Presence

Olive Dickason

Olive Patricia Dickason began her career as a journalist for The Gazette, in Montreal, and The Globe and Mail, before becoming a professor of History at the University of Alberta. The author of The Myth of the Savage, Canada's First Nations, and with L.C. Green, The Laws of Nations and the New World, she is proud of her Métis heritage.

In donating a copy of Canada's First Nations to the Museum, she felt it was important that one of her Métis sashes accompany it.

(left) Canada's First Nations: A History of Founding Peoples from Earliest Times, Third Edition, by Olive Dickason, Don Mills, Ontario: Oxford University Press Canada, 2002 CMC E 78 C2 D537 2001 (right) Sash Métis Date Unknown Wool Gift of Olive Dickason Canadian Museum of Civilization, III-Z-36, S2002-697, CD2002-0965-093