Accounting for genocide
Subtitle: Canada's bureaucratic assault on aboriginal people
By: Dean Neu and Richard Therrien.
Contributors: Therrien, Richard.
Publisher: Fernwood Pub.; Zed Books; Distributed in the USA exclusively by Palgrave
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Black Point, N.S; London; New York; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 194
Subjects: Indians of North America -- Canada -- Government relations; Indians of North America -- Crimes against -- Canada; Indians of North America -- Canada -- Economic conditions; Indians, Treatment of -- Canada; Native peoples -- Canada -- Economic conditions; Bureaucracy -- Canada; Autochtones -- Canada -- Relations avec l'État; Indiens d'Amérique, Attitudes envers les -- Canada; Autochtones -- Canada -- Conditions économiques; Autochtones -- Canada -- Conditions sociales; Bureaucratie -- Canada; Canada -- Race relations; Canada -- Politics and government
Description: "Accounting for Genocide is an original and controversial book that retells the history of the subjugation and ongoing economic marginalization of Canada's Indigenous peoples. Its authors demonstrate the ways in which successive Canadian governments have combined accounting techniques and economic rationalizations with bureaucratic mechanisms - soft technologies - to deprive native peoples of their land and natural resources and to control the minutiae of their daily economic and social lives. Particularly shocking is the evidence that federal and provincial governments are today still prepared to use legislative and fiscal devices in order to facilitate the continuing exploitation and damage of Indigenous people's lands."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 181-189) and index.