Social Science Discrimination & Race Relations
Our Land
Native Rights in Canada
- Publisher
- James Lorimer & Company Ltd., Publishers
- Initial publish date
- Mar 2011
- Category
- Discrimination & Race Relations, General
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9781552778869
- Publish Date
- Mar 2011
- List Price
- $18.00
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Hardback
- ISBN
- 9780888629753
- Publish Date
- Jan 1986
- List Price
- $35.00
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Description
Statistics speak all too eloquently of the plight of Canada's native people: unemployment runs as high as 90 per cent on some reserves; the school completion rate is less than 1/4 the national average; suicide rates are six times the national average. Canada has its own Third World of some 1 million people.
Our Land explains how Canada's aboriginal peoples were brought to this state of deprevation, and what they propose to do about it. Author Donald Purich begins by painting a quick, compelling portrait of the vibrant pre-contact Indian and Inuit cultures. He relates the effects of European colonisation and of "Indian policy" from Confederation on, including the legacy of treaty-making. The heart of the book concerns current native rights issues: land claims, economic development, self-government and constitutional protection. A separate chapter is devoted to the special case of the Métis.
About the author
DONALD PURICH is a former director of the Native Law Centre at the University of Saskatchewan.
