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White Man's Gonna Getcha
Toby Elaine Morantz
其他書名
The Colonial Challenge to the Crees in Quebec
出版McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP, 2002
主題History / Canada / GeneralHistory / Canada / Post-Confederation (1867-)History / Indigenous Peoples in the AmericasPolitical Science / Political Process / GeneralPolitical Science / Political Process / LeadershipSocial Science / Ethnic Studies / Canadian StudiesSocial Science / Ethnic Studies / American / Native American Studies
ISBN07735227009780773522701
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=a5Yh5gs-uXoC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋Morantz shows that with the imposition of administration from the south the Crees had to confront a new set of foreigners whose ideas and plans were very different from those of the fur traders. In the 1930s and 1940s government intervention helped overcome the disastrous disappearance of the beaver through the creation of government-decreed preserves and a ban on beaver hunting, but beginning in the 1950s a revolving array of socio-economic programs instituted by the government brought the adverse effects of what Morantz calls bureaucratic colonialism. Drawing heavily on oral testimonies recorded by anthropologists in addition to eye-witness and archival sources, Morantz incorporates the Crees' own views, interests, and responses. She shows how their strong ties to the land and their appreciation of the wisdom of their way of life, coupled with the ineptness and excessive frugality of the Canadian bureaucracy, allowed them to escape the worst effects of colonialism. Despite becoming increasingly politically and economically dominated by Canadian society, the Crees succeeded in staving off cultural subjugation. They were able to face the massive hydroelectric development of the 1970s with their language, practices, and values intact and succeeded in negotiating a modern treaty. This detailed portrait of twentieth-century Canadian colonialism will be of interest to native studies specialists, anthropologists, and political scientists generally.