Uncertain Counts: The Struggle to Enumerate First Nations in Canada and the United States, 1870-1911
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Benjamin Hoy
Ethnohistory, vol. 62, no. 4, October 2015, pp. 729-750
Description
Looks at reasons why Indian agents and national census takers often could not obtain accurate information, including: linguistic and cultural differences, distrust, uncertainty of racial categories, geographic mobility, and isolation of communities.