The Community Apart
A Case Study of a Canadian Indian Reserve Community
Overview
A thoughtful account of life on a reserve and of the interaction of Native people with White society, this volume is based on the author’s three years’ experience with one Indian band on the prairie, during a period in which there were intense negotiations between the band and the federal government. Lithman’s analysis of the political manoeuvring of both sides makes this a rare contemporary account.
About the Author
Table of Contents
1. The issue and its frames
1.1. Introduction
1.2. The issue
1.3. “Where the water widens”
1.4. Fieldwork, fieldwork career, fieldwork data
1.5. The emergence of Maple River: From trapping to tutelage
1.6. The tutelages
1.7. Indian mobility
2. Inter-ethnic interaction
2.1. Introduction
2.2. Non-negotiable interaction: White segregative
2.3. Negotiable interaction: White dominance/Indian submission
2.4. Negotiable interaction: Bargaining
2.5. Non-negotiable interaction: Indian segregative
2.6. Conclusions: The context, the meta-context and double bind
3. The politicized community
3.1. Introduction
3.2. The material provisioning of Maple River
3.3. The distribution of common resources
3.4. The politicized community
4. Towards the future
4.1. Introduction
4.2. The emerging community
4.3. The containment of conflict
Notes
References
