The impact of Euro-canadian civilization on the Algonkian speaking aborigines of the Province of Quebec poses many problems. sane of these problems, espeaially those involving changes in social organization and culture patterns are of interest to anthropologiste and other social scientiste. others are of more immediate or practical concern to government administrators and I:ndian welfare agencies. The present thesis has thus a two-fold objective: a general and a specifie purpose. The general purpose is to contribute to the body of anthropological knowledge wbich concerna itself with the understanding of the processes of culture change and culture growth. Such knowledge is essential to the planning and effective implementation of governmental policies among these people. The specifie purpose will be to descr!be and analyze some aspects of the process of culture change, or acculturation, among the Montagnais Indiana of the seven Islands band of the Quebec-Labrador region of canada. Three phases are abstracted in the acculturation process. The Haliotenam Reserve, one of the segments of the band is chosen as a typological representative of a community in Phase III of the postulated developmental sequences to be examined.

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Thesis (M.A.)--West Virginia University, 2003. / Title from document title page. Document formatted into pages; contains v, 40 p. : ill. (some col.), col. maps. Includes abstract. Includes bibliographical references (p. 37-40).

Thesis (M.A. - Anthropology)--University of Arizona. / Bibliography: leaves [82-83].

An analysis of the discourse in the Jesuit Relations indicates that the Jesuits' representation of Huron and Montagnais Indians is informed by a colonial ideology. The Jesuits' attempt to identify Indians according to permanent customs and manners is compared to conventional ethnographic description and is shown to result in a reductive, essentializing discourse. In their elaboration of the category of 'savagery' Jesuits metaphorically equated Indians with wild animals. They then stressed the need for reclaiming the Indians' humanity through conversion to Christianity. The Jesuits' figuration of the spiritual realm as a territory to be subdued and conquered is discussed, and the language of conversion is revealed as a language of control and conquest. It is finally argued that Jesuit representations of Indians functioned as an instrument of colonial domination. The analysis points to the need for decolonization of textual and historical spaces dominated by Eurocolonial discourses.

Mémoire (M.E.S.R.)--Université du Québec à Chicoutimi, 1998. / Document électronique également accessible en format PDF. CaQCU

Thèse (ME.I.R.) -- Université du Québec à Chicoutimi, 2006. / Bibliogr.: f. [113]-118. Document électronique également accessible en format PDF. CaQCU

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Thesis (M.M.S.)--Memorial University of Newfoundland, 2002. / Bibliography: leaves 52-55.

Mémoire (M.E.S.R.) -- Université du Québec à Chicoutimi, 1987. / Feuillets de fig. plies dans une pochette. CaQCU Bibliogr. : p. 191-201. Document électronique également accessible en format PDF. CaQCU