Aboriginal populations : social, demographic, and epidemiological perspectives

Trovato, Frank and Romaniuk, Anatole (Author).

Summary: 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 twenty-first century. This substantial volume will prove indispensable and timely to researchers, policy analysts, and teachers and students of social demography and Native studies.

Record details

ISBN: 9780888646255 (pbk.)
Physical Description: xxxvi, 550 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
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Publisher: Edmonton : University of Alberta Press, 2014.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

PART I: DEMOGRAPHIC PERSPECTIVES: 1. Canada's Aboriginal Population: From Encounter of Civilizations to Revival and Growth -- 2. Counting Aboriginal Peoples in Canada -- 3. Population Projections for the Aboriginal Population in Canada: A Review of Past, Present, and Future Prospect, 1991 to 2017 -- 4. Another Look at Definitions and Growth of Aboriginal Populations in Canada -- 5. Aboriginal Mobility and Migration in Canada: Patterns, Trends, and Implications, 1971 to 2006 -- PART II: EPIDEMIOLOGICAL PERPECTIVES: 6. Alcoholism and Other Social Problems in Canadian Aboriginal Communities: Policy Alternatives and Implications for Social Action -- 7. Cultural Continuity and the Social-Emotional Well-Being of First Nations Youth -- 8. Addressing the Disparities in Aboriginal Health through Social Determinants Research -- 9. North-North and North-South Health Disparities: A Circumpolar Perspective -- PART III: SOCIOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVES: 10. Death and the Family: A Half Century of Mortality Change in the Registered Indian Population of Canada as Reflected in Period Life Tables -- 11. Ethnic or Catagorical Mobility?: Challenging Conventional Demographic Explanations of Metis Populations Growth -- 12. "I'm sweating with Cree Culture no Saulteaux Culture": Urban Aboriginal Cultural Identities -- 13. Continuity or Disappearance: Aboriginal Languages in Canada -- 14. The Eagle Has Landed: Optimism among Canada's First Nations Community -- 15. American Indian Education -- 16. Interrogating the Image of the "Wandering Nomad": Indigenous Temporary Mobility Practices in Australia -- 17. Closing Which Gap?: Demographic and Geographic Dilemmas for Indigenous Policy in Australia -- 18. From Common Colonization to Internal Segmentation: Rethinking Indigenous Demography in New Zealand -- 19. Indigenous Minorities and Post-Socialist Transition: A Review of Aboriginal Population Trends in the Russian North -- Appendix A -- Contributors -- Index.