Politics and Public Policy

Separate but Unequal: How Parallelist Ideology Conceals Indigenous Dependency
Frances Widdowson


Paperback (Trade paperback US) | Nov 2019 | University of Ottawa Press | 9780776628547 | 312pp | 228x152mm | GEN | AUD$72.99, NZD$89.99

The ideology of parallelism distorts our understanding of Indigenous dependency. Restoring the "nation-to-nation" relationship only serves to inhibit Indigenous Peoples' participation in the Canadian labour force, with the undesirable and unintended effect of entrenching their isolation from the modern world.