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Aboriginal Populations: Social, Demographic, and Epidemiological Perspectives
Aboriginal Populations Social Demographic and Epidemiological Perspectives Author:Frank Trovato, Anatole Romaniuk The overarching theme of this volume is that Canadas Aboriginal population has reached a critical stage of social demographic development, from a situation in the past characterised by delayed modernisation, extreme socio-economic deficit, and minimal control over their demography, to a present point of social, political, economic, and demograph... more »ic ascendancy". -- from the Preface. Experts from around the world review and extend the research on Aboriginal Peoples in Canada, Australia, New Zealand and the circumpolar North, mapping recent changes in their demography, health, and sociology and comparing their conditions with that of Aboriginal Peoples in other countries. Contributors point to policies and research needed to meet the challenges Aboriginal Peoples are likely to face in the 21st century. This substantial volume will prove indispensable and timely to researchers, policy analysts, students, and teachers of social demography and Native Studies.« less