Makuk: New History of Aborigina-White Relations

By John Sutton Lutz format: hardcover publication: March 2008 ISBN: 9780774811392

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Makuk traces Aboriginal people's involvement in the new economy and their displacement from it, from the first arrival of Europeans to the 1970s. John Sutton Lutz draws upon oral hisotries, manuscripts, newspaper accounts, biographies, and statistical analysis to show that Aboriginal people flocked to the workforce and prospered in the late nineteenth century. The roots of today's widespread unemployment and "welfare dependency" date only from the 1950s when deliberate and inadvertent policy choices - what Lutz terms the "white problem" - drove Aboriginal people out of the capitalist, wage, and subsistence economies, offering them welfare as "compensation." Makuk invites readers into a dialogue with the past with visual imagery and an engaging narrative that gives a voice to Aboriginal peoples and other historical figures. Students, scholars, policy makers (Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal) , and a wide public (who care to bring the spectres of the past into the light of the present) will find the book insightful and invaluable.

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