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- Title
"A RELATIONSHIP AND INTERCHANGE OF EXPERIENCE": H.B. Hawthorn, Indian Affairs, and the 1955 BC Indian Research Project.
- Authors
PLANT, BYRON KING
- Abstract
The article explores the history of government policy on Indian tribes in Canada and the commissioning of the Indian Research Project in 1955 by the Canadian Department of Citizenship and Immigration. The project was an experimental attempt to conduct anthropological research on Aboriginal customs and institutions for administrative purposes. It is suggested that the development of the project embodies bureaucratically acquired forms of specialized knowledge to extend state domination. Other topics include scholarship to suit political ends, Indian assimilation, and scholar H. B. Hawthorn.
- Subjects
FIRST Nations social conditions; CANADIAN history, 1945-; CANADIAN politics &; government, 1945-; RACE relations in Canada; HISTORY of Canadian government relations with First Nations; CULTURAL assimilation of Native Americans; TWENTIETH century
- Publication
BC Studies, 2009, Issue 163, p5
- ISSN
0005-2949
- Publication type
Article