Olive Dickason
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Olive Patricia Dickason CM (1920–2011)[2] was a Métis historian and journalist. She was the first scholar in Canada to receive a PHD in Indigenous history. She is known for writing one of the first textbooks about First Nations in Canada, Canada's First Nations: A History of Founding Peoples from the Earliest Times.
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Born | Olive Patricia Dickason (1920-03-06)6 March 1920 |
Died | 12 March 2011(2011-03-12) (aged 91) |
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Anthony Dickason (divorced) |
Children | 3 |
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Thesis | The Myth of the Savage (1976) |
Academic advisors | Cornelius Jaenen |
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Discipline | History |
Sub-discipline | Canadian Indigenous history |
Institutions | University of Alberta |
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