ANTH 2660 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Natural Disaster, Ipperwash Provincial Park, Ipperwash Crisis
22 Feb 2017
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Aboriginal policy making in canada has been inconsistent, contradictory and discriminatory throughout canadian history. Land base for aboriginals has been shrinking on a per capita basis" which has resulted in a large population of natives moving off of reserves and away from their communities. Many of these off reserve" natives are living on crown land in squatter communities. The main research methodology of anthropology is participant observation, which allows anthropologists a firsthand look at the issues surrounding aboriginal communities. The advantages an anthropologist has in the policy field is; their familiarity with local problems, and a historical precedent" of practical and action-orientated behaviour. In the past anthropologists have not been involved with a strong and forceful response to certain issues, that is now changing ex. Waldram"s 1988 study about the forced relocation of the cree community of chemawawin in northern manitoba due to hydroelectric development ; issues due to the health of natives such as the mercury positioning of the.
