Indigenous women, work, and history, 1940-1980 [electronic resource] / Mary Jane Logan McCallum.

Based on a range of sources including the records of the Departments of Indian Affairs and National Health and Welfare, interviews. print, and media, McCallum shows how state-run education and placement programs were part of Canada's larger vision of assimilation and extinguishment of treaty obligat...

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Main Author: McCallum, Mary Jane (Author)
Language:English
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Text in English.
Published: Winnipeg, Manitoba : University of Manitoba Press, [2014]
Series:Critical studies in native history ; 16.
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Indigenous Women, Work, and History
Format: Electronic eBook
Contents:
  • Sweeping the Nation: Indigenous women and domestic labour in mid-twentieth-century Canada
  • Permanent solution: the placement and relocation program, hairdressers, and beauty culture
  • Early labour history of community health representatives, 1960-1970
  • Gaining recognition: labour as activism among Indigenous nurses
  • Wages of whiteness and the indigenous historian.