From Wooden Ploughs to Welfare: Why Indian Policy Failed in the Prairie Provinces Volume 7

by Helen Buckley and Helen Buckley

From Wooden Ploughs to Welfare examines the reserve system imposed by the Canadian government in the 1870s - a system, rooted in theories of racial difference, that stifled initiative, opportunity, and self-esteem. The 1960s saw the collapse of the reserve economy, until then sustained by casual wage work or trapping. The government's answer was a welfare program which marked a new era of deeper dependency. Helen Buckley argues that later government...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0773511555
• ISBN13: 9780773511552
• Release Date: May 1993
• Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.