The influence of betterment discourses on Canadian Aboriginal peoples in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries

Canadian Geographer

Volumn 53, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 444-461

  Bednasek, C Drew ^a   Godlewska, Anne M C ^a  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Betterment; Eugenics; Euthenics; First nations; Indian policy

Indexed keywords

INDIGENOUS POPULATION; NINETEENTH CENTURY; SOCIAL HISTORY; TWENTIETH CENTURY;

CANADA; NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 71449120294     PISSN: 00083658     EISSN: 15410064     Source Type: Trade Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1541-0064.2009.00281.x     Document Type: Article

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