Indigenous Women, Work, and History : 1940-1980 (Critical Studies in Native History)

Presents case studies of Indigenous domestic servants, hairdressers, community health representatives, and nurses working in "modern Native ways" between 1940 and 1980. Based on a range of sources, Mary Jane Logan McCallum shows how state-run education and placement programmes were part of Canada's larger vision of assimilation and extinguishment of treaty obligations.