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Readings in Aboriginal studies Volume 2, Identities and state structures
Xwi7xwa Library, University of British Columbia

Creators
Sawchuk, Joe
Contributors
Corrigan, Samuel W.
Description
"This book provides basic readings on Aboriginal people and questions of identity for students taking introductory courses in Aboriginal Studies, Anthropology, Sociology, Political Science, Psychology, Women’s Studies, and Social Work. It will be of interest to those concerned with the imposition of identity upon individuals by the state, and to all those challenged by such issues as Aboriginal government, human rights and the survival of small societies"

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Holding Library
Xwi7xwa Library, University of British Columbia
ISBN
0969549822
Publication Information
Brandon Man. : Bearpaw Publishing
Notes
Collection of previously published papers;Partial contents: Pt. 1. Introduction: State structures and imposed identities : the invention of "Indian" - Pt. 2. CANADA: STATE DEFINITIONS OF ABORIGINALITY. Ethnostatus distinctions in the western Canadian subarctic : implications for inter-ethnic and interpersonal relations / James B. Waldram - Indian, Metis, Native : some implications of special status / Noel Dyck - The absurd little mouse : when Eskimos became Indians / Richard J. Diubaldo - The reification of ethnicity and its political consequences in the North / Graham Watson - Pt. 3. CANADA: THE RECLAMATION OF ABORIGINAL IDENTITY. The Metis, non-Status Indians and the new aboriginality : government influence on Native political alliances and identity / Joe Sawchuk - Redbaiting and racism on our frontier : military expansion in Labrador and Quebec / Peter Armitage, John C. Kennedy - Who are the Metis? / David Boisvert, Keith Turnbull - Pt. 4. CANADA: INDIVIDUAL RESPONSES TO STATE DEFINITIONS OF ABORIGINAL IDENTITY. Underground policy : an essay on identity and the Aboriginal victims of non-aboriginal structures / Samuel W. Corrigan - Judicial preservation of ethnic group boundaries : the Iriquois case / Sally M. Weaver - Sexual equality and Indian government : an analysis of Bill C-31 amendments to the Indian act / Joyce Green - Pt. 5. CANADA: SOVEREIGNTY, NATIONHOOD AND IDENTITY. Tribal traditions and European-Western political ideologies : the dilemma of Canada's Native Indians / Menno Boldt, J. Anthony Long - Internationalization : perspectives on an emerging direction in Aborigianl affairs / J. Rick Ponting - Pt. 6. SOME COMPARISONS: THE UNITED STATES. The situation of indigenous populations in the United States : a contemporary perspective / Ward Churchill - Federal Indian identification policy : a usurpation of indigenous sovereignty in North America / M. Annette Jaimes - Pt. 7. SOME COMPARISONS: THE FOURTH WORLD. Aboriginal identity : the management of a minority group by the mainstream society / Deirdre F. Jordan - The Sami law : a change of Norwegian government policy toward the Sami minority? / Oystein Steinlien;Bibliography: p. 314-352
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