TY  - BOOK
AU  - White,Jerry P.
AU  - Maxim,Paul S.
AU  - Beavon,Dan
TI  - Aboriginal Conditions: Research As a Foundation for Public Policy
SN  - 9780774851794
AV  - E78.C2 -- A1253 2003eb 
U1  - 305.897/071 
PY  - 2003///
CY  - Vancouver
PB  - University of British Columbia Press
KW  - Indians of North America -- Canada -- Social conditions
KW  - Indians of North America -- Government relations -- Canada
KW  - Canada -- Social policy
KW  - Canada -- Politics and government
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Intro -- Contents -- Tables and Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The Focus of Aboriginal Conditions -- Part 1: Thinking Outside the Box: Building Models Based on Communities -- 1 Social Capital, Social Cohesion, and Population Outcomes in Canada's First Nations Communities -- Part 2: The Limits of Our Knowledge and the Need to Refine Understandings -- 2 Perils and Pitfalls of Aboriginal Demography: Lessons Learned from the RCAP Projections -- 3 Impacts of the 1985 Amendments to the Indian Act on First Nations Populations -- 4 Changing Ethnicity: The Concept of Ethnic Drifters -- 5 Aboriginal Mobility and Migration Patterns and the Policy Implications -- Part 3: Confronting Culture with Science: Language and Public Policy -- 6 Aboriginal Language Retention and Socio-Economic Development: Theory and Practice -- 7 Aboriginal Language Transmission and Maintenance in Families: Results of an Intergenerational and Gender-Based Analysis for Canada, 1996 -- Part 4: Measuring and Predicting Capacity and Development -- 8 An Application of the United Nations Human Development Index to Registered Indians in Canada, 1996 -- 9 Dispersion and Polarization of Income among Aboriginal and Non-Aboriginal Canadians -- 10 Toward an Index of Community Capacity: Predicting Community Potential for Successful Program Transfer -- Conclusion: The Research-Policy Nexus - What Have We Learned? -- Notes on Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- W -- Y
N2  - Social science researchers from both within and outside of government collaborate to examine how research can and should be used as a foundation for the development of public policy
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ER  -