Public welfare, Indigenous peoples -- Canada -- Social conditions, Indigenous peoples -- Canada -- Government relations, Public welfare -- Canada 

"The demoralization of Canada's first inhabitants, by a system whose mask has been one of charity and benevolence but whose reality is one of exploitation and enslavement, is not a tragedy peculiar to the Canadian Indian. It is also a warning to all those who still believe in personal freedom and know how easily it can be lost. The impotent despair seen in the faces of so many of our Indians is spreading beyond the confines of the reservation and the Indian ghettos of the cities. It can be seen in the faces of our own children, raised in an overabundance of comfort; in the faces of the poor, the unemployed, the pensioners; in the faces of all those who have been convinced of their uselessness and their need to be "protected."

Welfare: Hidden Backlash is a comprehensive indictment not only of our government policies toward the Indian but of the underlying philosophy that has brought forth a profusion of government welfare legislation. Dr. Shumiatcher argues that we will not free ourselves of the aimlessness and desperation infecting people in all social groups and at all economic levels, until we have recognized and understood the reality behind the mask of welfarism."--Book jacket. 

215 pages : 24 cm. 

Includes index.