British Columbia, Indigenous peoples -- British Columbia 

"Early in 1954 the Department of Citizenship and Immigration commissioned the University of British Columbia to undertake the Indian Research Project. Thus was launched a comprehensive study of modern Indian life, focused on the adjustments of the Indians to the Canadian economy and society. It was hoped that by assessing the present situation of a segment of the Indians of Canada, data and specific recommendations would be obtained which might provide a guide for future policy. British Columbia was chosen as the locale for the survey partly because of the experience of several members of the faculty of the University of British Columbia in similar studies.

This volume is the outgrowth of that project and undoubtedly constitutes a milestone in such studies. It analyses fully Indian welfare with stress on those aspects responsive to administrative action, ethnographic and historical data being supplied to the extent they are needed for the comprehension, planning, and achievement of welfare goals. The study covers such important aspects as demographic background, traditional culture, attitudes to land, ethnic relations, occupations, the fishing and lumber industries, game and fur, agriculture, the Indian as entrepreneur, domestic economy, housing, the economic role of arts and crafts, prospects for economic development, the family, schools and education, the nature and extent of crime, law enforcement, the question of liquor, social welfare, political structure of the community, Indians in the Canadian policy, the administration of Indian affairs."--Book jacket.