Description: 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.
Brief description: Frances Widdowson is an Associate Professor in the Department of Economics, Justice, and Policy Studies at Mount Royal University. She has co-written and co-edited (with Albert Howard) two books on aboriginal policy - Disrobing the Aboriginal Industry: The Deception Behind Indigenous Cultural Preservation, short-listed for the Donner Prize, and Approaches to Aboriginal Education in Canada: Searching for Solutions. She is currently editing a volume on "Indigenizing the University", as well as undertaking an investigation of how advocacy studies are "murdering" the human sciences.
Review Quotes: A fearless book, Separate but Unequal needs to be read for its rigorous critique of conventional wisdom--on the right and the left--about the history, the current conditions, and the best ways forward for Indigenous Peoples in Canada. It makes a unique contribution to our most important public policy debate.-- "PUO-UOP"