Statistics speak all too eloquently of the plight of Canada's native people: unemployment runs as high as 90 per cent on some reserves; the school completion rate is less than 1/4 the national average; suicide rates are six times the national average. Canada has its own Third World of some 1 million people. This book explains how Canada's Indigenous Peoples were brought to this state of deprivation, and what they propose to do about it.

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