ANTH 2660 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Dog Sled, Northern Canada
27 Apr 2016
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Economic perspective: employment (charts, gnp, developing industry, standard of living . Building community infrastructures schools, water treatment, roads. Prof suggests: let local peoples work with the given information of development the aid approach. The aid approach to development: the aid approach is the idea that if the government is lending money to the development, they get to run it look up more** The service sector economy is important to natives peoples as it represents a lot of their employment: ex. ) Lady offering authentic dog sled trip, camp out at night. Why move to toronto when the service sector economy for a lot of native americans exists outside of the city. Disadvantages: jobs are provided but they are not high-paying, the income generated from these jobs are not comparable to those working in other industry"s such as the automotive economy. Unemployment rates: 2006: total canadian = 6. 6, total aboriginal = 12. 3, first nations = 13. 3, metis = 8. 9, inuit = 18. 2%
