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Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Focus of Aboriginal Conditions / Jerry P.White
Part 1: Thinking Outside the Box: Building Models Based onCommunities / Jerry P. White
1. Social Capital, Social Cohesion, and Population Outcomes inCanada's First Nations Communities / Jerry P. White and PaulS. Maxim
Part 2: The Limits of Our Knowledge and the Need to RefineUnderstandings / Jerry P. White
2. Perils and Pitfalls of Aboriginal Demography: Lessons Learnedfrom the RCAP Projections / Don Kerr, Eric Guimond, and Mary JaneNorris
3. Impacts of the 1985 Amendments to the Indian Act on First NationsPopulations / Stewart Clatworthy
4. Changing Ethnicity: The Concept of Ethnic Drifters / EricGuimond
5 . Aboriginal Mobility and Migration Patterns and the PolicyImplications / Mary Jane Norris, Marty Cooke, and StewartClatworthy
Part 3: Confronting Culture with Science: Language andPublic Policy / Jerry P. White
6 . Aboriginal Language Retention and Socio-Economic Development:Theory and Practice / Erin O'Sullivan
7. Aboriginal Language Transmission and Maintenance in Families:Results of an Intergenerational and Gender-Based Analysis for Canada,1996 / Mary Jane Norris and Karen MacCon
Part 4: Measuring and Predicting Capacity and Development /Jerry P. White
8. An Application of the United Nations Human Development Index toRegistered Indians in Canada, 1996 / Daniel Beavon and MartinCooke
9. Dispersion and Polarization of Income among Aboriginal andNon-Aboriginal Canadians / Paul S. Maxim, Jerry P. White, and DanBeavon
10. Toward an Index of Community Capacity: Predicting CommunityPotential for Successful Program Transfer / Paul S. Maxim and JerryP. White
Conclusion: The Research-Policy Nexus -- What Have We Learned? /Jerry P. White
Notes on Contributors
Index
