Includes bibliographical references.

Part I. Introduction: Aboriginal people and human services -- Part II. The Aboriginal population: Introduction -- 1. 1981 census coverage of the Native population in Manitoba and Sasdatchewan -- 2. Judicial recognition of Aboriginal customary law in Canada: selected marriage and adoption -- Part III. Housing services for Aboriginal people: Introduction -- 3. On the rail-line in northwestern Ontario: non-reserve housing and community change -- 4. Native housing conditions in Winnipeg -- Part IV. Health services for Aboriginal people: Introduction -- 5. Canadian Indian health: a needs assessment project -- 6. The impact of resource development on the health of native people in the Northwest Territories -- The provision of primary health care services under band control: the Montreal Lake case -- Part V. Educational services for Aboriginal people: Introduction -- 8. Conflicting perceptions of deviance at a Canadian Native school -- 9. Unique features of a Band-controlled school: the Seabird Island Community School.

Part VI. Services for Aboriginal children and families: Introduction -- 10. Child protection and the Native child: a case study -- 11. Status of Metis people within the child welfare system -- 12. Native children in treatment: clinical, social and cultural issues -- 13. Children: an analysis of cases decided pursuant to the Indian Child Welfare Act of 1978 -- 14. A death in the family: the strategic importance of women in contemporary Ojibwa society -- Part VII. Justice services and Aboriginal people: Introduction -- 15. Devalued people: the status of the Metis in the justice system -- 16. Native women and crime: a theoretical model -- Part VIII. Evaluation and Aboriginal people: Introduction -- 17. The implications of the mismeasurement of Native students' intelligence through the use of standardized intelligence tests -- 18. The James Smith Reserve Cree Counterbalance I.Q. Test.