Epistemological inequality : Aboriginal labor and knowledge in the geological surveys of George Mercer Dawson, 1874-1901

Historical studies of Canadian science often ignore the assistance that Aboriginal people provided to frontier scientists. Monographs and biographies detailing the extraordinary career of Canadian geological surveyor George Mercer Dawson in the late nineteenth-century subsume the role that Aborigina...

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Main Author: Prkachin, Eva Jean
Format: Thesis
Language:English
Published: University of British Columbia 2009
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/2429/12267