An empirical clarification of motivational variables among Saskatchewan people of Indian ancestry

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Date
1964Author
Harding, David James
Type
ThesisDegree Level
MastersMetadata
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A lack of reliable knowledge regarding the problems facing Indian and Metis people has hindered the development of intelligent programs and policies to facilitate their healthy integration into the larger Canadian society. Two large scale studies (Hawthorn, Belshaw, & Jamieson, 1958; Lagassé, 1959) have attempted to alleviate this problem by collecting extensive data on such aspects of Indian and Metis life as the community and family, resources, employment, education, relations with the law, social welfare needs, liquor and administration. These broad studies dealt only indirectly with Indian and Metis philosophies, personalities and modes of thought, areas in which a comprehensive understanding will have to be achieved to thoroughly comprehend the nature of the problems facing people of Indian ancestry. The Hawthorn study stressed that other research which might follow should include topics such as those which lie within the vast area of psychology.
Degree
Master of Arts (M.A.)Department
PsychologyProgram
PsychologySupervisor
Sydiaha, D.Copyright Date
1964Subject
vocational traing school Saskatoon
Northern Saskatchewan
Metis
provincial jail Prince Albert