Socio-cultural Disintegration Among the Fringe Saulteaux

Shimpo, Mitsuru and Robert Williamson

Saskatoon, 1965

By Centre for Community Studies
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Card covers, staple bound, adhesive back strip, 291 pages, 8.5x11 in [21.5x28 cm]. Signature of Robert Williamson on front cover.

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Covers soiled, edgeworn, and age tanned, back cover sunned and stained, corners bumped and creased, top edge dust stained, backstrip frayed and torn-detached at bottom edge, margins age tanned.

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An examination of how long-term historical, social, and cultural forces produced deep-rooted problems within the Fringe Saulteaux community of the Kamsack area in eastern Saskatchewan. Drawing on reconstructed community history, Mitsuru Shimpo and Robert Williamson show that present-day social conditions are the outcome of sustained disruption rather than sudden failure. The study rejects quick fixes, arguing that understanding the past is essential to grasping the persistence of Indigenous social crises and avoiding their repetition.
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