2 Perils and Pitfalls of Aboriginal Demography: Lessons Learned from the RCAP Projections

Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents v
3. Tables and Figures vii
4. Acknowledgments xii
5. Introduction: The Focus of Aboriginal Conditions xiii
6. Thinking Outside the Box: Building Models Based on Communities
7. Social Capital, Social Cohesion, and Population Outcomes in Canada’s First Nations Communities 7
8. The Limits of Our Knowledge and the Need to Refine Understandings
9. Perils and Pitfalls of Aboriginal Demography: Lessons Learned from the RCAP Projections 39
10. Impacts of the 1985 Amendments to the Indian Act on First Nations Populations 63
11. Changing Ethnicity: The Concept of Ethnic Drifters 91
12. Aboriginal Mobility and Migration Patterns and the Policy Implications 108
13. Confronting Culture with Science: Language and Public Policy
14. Aboriginal Language Retention and Socio-Economic Development: Theory and Practice 136
15. Aboriginal Language Transmission and Maintenance in Families: Results of an Intergenerational and Gender-Based Analysis for Canada, 1996 164
16. Measuring and Predicting Capacity and Development
17. An Application of the United Nations Human Development Index to Registered Indians in Canada, 1996 201
18. Dispersion and Polarization of Income among Aboriginal and Non-Aboriginal Canadians 222
19. Toward an Index of Community Capacity: Predicting Community Potential for Successful Program Transfer 248
20. Conclusion: The Research-Policy Nexus–What Have We Learned? 264
21. Notes on Contributors 271
22. Index 273