From Wooden Ploughs to Welfare; Why Indian Policy Failed in the Prairie Provinces

Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press [0-7735-0893-7] 1992. (Hardcover) 209pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. Map, notes, bibliography, index. "It is only since the 'the Oka crisis' - the confrontation in Quebec between police, the army, and native peoples in the summer of 1990 - and Elija Harper's stand against Meech Lake that many Canadians have come to recognize the urgent need to do something to improve the situation of Indian people. Helen Buckley demonstrates that a solution has been needed for years, arguing that self-government is the only reasonable solution to the seemingly insurmountable problems of poverty and isolation among Canada's Status Indians - problems created by government policy". Book about Indian Status. Locale: Prairie Provinces; Western Canada. (Indians of N.A., Government--Canada, Indian Reserves, Indians of North America, Indigenous Peoples--Canada, Self-Government).