{"id":85,"date":"2011-07-30T13:49:48","date_gmt":"2011-07-30T21:49:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mannis2\/?p=85"},"modified":"2011-08-06T09:04:39","modified_gmt":"2011-08-06T17:04:39","slug":"the-eskimo-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mannis2\/2011\/07\/30\/the-eskimo-problem\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;The Eskimo Problem&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The &#8220;Eskimo Problem&#8221; emerged in the 1950s. The Canadian government introduced a policy to remove Inuit people to unsettled Arctic islands. The idea behind the policy was to allow the Inuit to re-establish self-sufficient &#8220;traditional&#8221; societies away from the insidious influences of Euro-Canadians.<\/p>\n<p>The removal of the Inuit reflected the immense faith that non-Aboriginal Canadians shared in the ability of experts to solve problems such as poverty and disease through social engineering.<\/p>\n<p>The &#8220;Eskimo Problem&#8221; was defined at a conference on Eskimo Affairs held on 19-20 May, 1952. The &#8220;Eskimo Problem&#8221; was defined as having three components: an unstable economy, poor health, and a growing dependence on government benefits.<\/p>\n<p>See article by Alan Rudolph Marcus, <em>Relocating Eden: The Image and Politics of Inuit Exile in the Canadian Arctic<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The &#8220;Eskimo Problem&#8221; emerged in the 1950s. The Canadian government introduced a policy to remove Inuit people to unsettled Arctic islands. The idea behind the policy was to allow the Inuit to re-establish self-sufficient &#8220;traditional&#8221; societies away from the insidious influences of Euro-Canadians. The removal of the Inuit reflected the immense faith that non-Aboriginal Canadians [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6360,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3408,310001],"tags":[112,310031],"class_list":["post-85","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-imperialism","category-post-war-canada","tag-first-nations","tag-social-engineering"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mannis2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mannis2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mannis2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mannis2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6360"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mannis2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mannis2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":191,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mannis2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85\/revisions\/191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mannis2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mannis2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mannis2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}