Acculturation among the Seven Islands Montagnais.

• Main Author: Richardson, R. Alan.
• Other Authors: Fried, Jacob (Supervisor)
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: McGill University 1961
• Subjects: Montagnais Indians; Acculturation; Canada; Labrador region; montagnais
• Online Access: http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=111314

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.