Title: From Wooden Ploughs to Welfare: Why Indian Policy Failed in the Prairie Provinces (MCGILL-QUEEN'S NATIVE AND NORTHERN SERIES)
Publisher: McGill Queens Univ Pr
Publication Date: 1992
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0773508937
ISBN 13: 9780773508934
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Good
Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket
Weight: 1.1 pounds

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Buckley, an economist retired from a career in Canadian government and academia, argues that self-government is the only solution to the economic isolation and underdevelopment of native Canadians. She reviews the failure of government programs since the 1870s. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

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"Buckley's persuasive book is a much-needed history lesson on how Indians in so many Prairie reserves were systematically reduced to welfare cases ... Books that help us see our country more clearly are rare. This is one of them." Boyce Richardson, Ottawa Citizen. "Buckley compellingly outlines the enormous poverty and suffering that has been allowed to develop in the midst of a relatively prosperous Western Canadian society ... there are many insights of the kind that need to be disseminated as quickly as possible if we are to avoid the kind of confrontations that took place at Oka and Kanewake." Tony Hall, Native American Studies, University of Lethbridge. "Buckley holds federal policy directly responsible for the squalor of the native communities and calls unabashedly for native self-government." Ian Petrie, The Queen's Journal. "Buckley points out not only the shortcomings of past policies and programs but suggests new directions and strategies for the nineties ... fresh interpretations and approaches appear throughout ... reflecting the author's long acquaintance with the subject, and her first-hand experience." Sarah Carter, Department of History, University of Winnipeg.

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