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Disrobing the Aboriginal Industry

The Deception Behind Indigenous Cultural Preservation

Frances Widdowson author Albert Howard author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:McGill-Queen's University Press

Published:24th Oct '08

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Despite the billions of dollars devoted to aboriginal causes, Native people in Canada continue to suffer all the symptoms of a marginalized existence - high rates of substance abuse, poverty. This title argues that the policies proposed to address these problems - land claims and self government - are in fact contributing to their entrenchment.How aboriginal deprivation is maintained by a self-serving "industry" of lawyers and consultants.

"Disrobing the Aboriginal Industry does an excellent job of pointing out logical inconsistencies in the Aboriginal political movement - a matter of great practical as well as academic importance." Tom Flanagan, author of First Nations? Second Thoughts "Insightful, carefully argued and meticulously documented." John Richards, Simon Fraser University

ISBN: 9780773534216

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 478g

336 pages