Critiques federal government's programs for the provision of housing, which authors argue failed to take into account Inuit culture, designed and built houses suited to needs in the South rather than the North, and set up housing authorities and community councils that were, in effect, run by Whites rather than by Inuit members.
Annual Meeting of the Conference on College Composition and Communication ; 49th, 1998
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Amy Goodburn
Description
Presents letters written by students that were sometimes used as propaganda to promote public awareness about American Indian education.
Paper from the Annual Meeting of the Conference on College Composition and Communication, 1998.
Postsecondary Education Project: Learner Pathways and Transitions
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Author/Creator
Roland D. Chrisjohn
Description
Argues that programs aimed at recruitment and retention are useless if they are designed simply to increase numbers of Aboriginal students without fundamentally changing the existing attitudes and context of academic institutions.