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This study brings out the characteristics and the profiles of native entrepreneurs and businesses, by underscoring the distinctive elements of native business dynamics on several Quebec reservations. Sites chosen: Wendake, a Huron village at Lorette, near Quebec City; Mashteuiatsh (Pointe-Bleue), at Lac-Saint-Jean West; Mingan, on the Lower North Shore; and Kuujjuaq, in Inuit territory.
First published in 1993, "First Nations: Race, Class, and Gender Relations "remains unique in offering systematically, from a political economy perspective, an analysis that enables us to understand the diverse realities of Aboriginal people within changing Canadian and global contexts. The book provides an extended analysis of how changing social dynamics, organized particularly around race, class, and gender relations, have shaped the life chances and conditions for Aboriginal people within the structure of Canadian society and its major institutional forms. The authors conclude that prospects for First Nations and Aboriginal people remain uncertain insofar as they are grounded in contradictory social, economic, and cultural, and political realities.
This study discusses the history of Indian policy in Canada, and examines the areas of justice, policy, leadership, culture and economy as factors in self-government.
This study examines several ways to create and maintain economic viability and independence for First Nation communities, in place of the traditional approaches to employment and welfare.
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"During the past decade Canadian policy-makers have been forced to re-examine familiar forms of government and established programs in the face of growing budget deficits, economic instability, and a rapidly changing global economy. This collection of eighteen original essays presents a critical exploration of the question of political and economic restructuring from the vantage point of gender." "The authors argue that the present shift in the global order is revealing the contradictory effects of what is a dual process of both gender erosion and intensification. With the convergence of male and female job experiences in polarized labour markets, gender appears to be less important in under...