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Social Science Native American Studies

Disrobing the Aboriginal Industry

The Deception Behind Indigenous Cultural Preservation

by (author) Frances Widdowson & Albert Howard

Publisher
McGill-Queen's University Press
Initial publish date
Oct 2008
Category
Native American Studies, General
  • Hardback

    ISBN
    9780773534209
    Publish Date
    Oct 2008
    List Price
    $110.00
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780773534216
    Publish Date
    Oct 2008
    List Price
    $37.95
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9780773577473
    Publish Date
    Oct 2008
    List Price
    $37.95

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By examining the root causes of aboriginal problems, Frances Widdowson and Albert Howard expose the industry that has grown up around land claim settlements, showing that aboriginal policy development over the past thirty years has been manipulated by non-aboriginal lawyers and consultants. They analyse all the major aboriginal policies, examine issues that have received little critical attention - child care, health care, education, traditional knowledge - and propose the comprehensive government provision of health, education, and housing rather than deficient delivery through Native self-government.

About the authors

Frances Widdowson is an Associate Professor in the Department of Economics, Justice, and Policy Studies at Mount Royal University. She has co-written and co-edited (with Albert Howard) two books on aboriginal policy – Disrobing the Aboriginal Industry: The Deception Behind Indigenous Cultural Preservation, short-listed for the Donner Prize, and Approaches to Aboriginal Education in Canada: Searching for Solutions. She is currently editing a volume on “Indigenizing the University”, as well as undertaking an investigation of how advocacy studies are “murdering” the human sciences.

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Albert Howard has worked as a consultant for government and Native groups, and is currently an instructor and Director of Programs, Kennedy College of Technology, Toronto.

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