Mixed Race, Legal Space: Official Discourse, Indigeneity, and Racial Mixing in Canada, the US, and Australia, 1850-1950

• Main Author: Augustus, Camilla
• Other Authors: Handy, Jim, Miller, J.R., Zellar, Gary, Horwitz, Simonne, Macdougall, Brenda, Curthoys, Ann
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: University of Saskatchewan 2013
• Subjects: mixed-race; Aboriginal; Indigenous peoples; Aboriginal policy; Metis; hybridity; orientalism; Canada; the United States; Australia; post-Enlightenment science; Newcomer
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10388/ETD-2013-07-1171

It is commonly held that contradiction and ambivalence are typical of Aboriginal policies, particularly those of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. These contradictions, often witnessed between policy and its application, have been recognized as a competition between pragmatic factors and human...