Dispelling Common Myths about Indigenous Peoples: Nine Myths & Realities
E-Books
Author/Creator
Bob Joseph
Description
Covers issues such as adequacy of reserve lands and resources, housing, tax exemptions, post-secondary education funding, residential schools, connection between unemployment and health and social problems, and missing and murdered women and girls.
Reports results of survey of 353 newspaper articles and 29 television items containing news relating to Maori people and issues. Sample taken on 14 pre-selected days in August, September and October 2004.
Based on papers presented at the conference: The West and Beyond : Historians Past, Present and Future, held at the University of Alberta, 19–21 June, 2008.