Review of \u3ci\u3e Anthropology, Public Policy, and Native Peoples in Canada\u3c/i\u3e edited by Noel Dyck and James B. Waldram

In their chapter in Anthropology, Public Policy, and Natives Peoples in Canada, John O\u27Neil et al. state that anthropology has affected policy development in virtually every sector of northern community life except medicine (p. 216). Despite this observation, the book generally tends to stress Canadian anthropology\u27s overall difficulties in aboriginal policy-making. It examines some of anthropology\u27s most sensitive and difficult issues in this area critically, suggesting an ambivalent relationship towards the policy-making process. The book\u27s focus on anthropology\u27s problems in contributing to aboriginal public policy is established in the editors\u27 introduction, which examines several sources of these difficulties. A brief overview is also given of Canadian anthropology\u27s historic involvement in aboriginal policy-making, followed by a review of the modern period, beginning in the 1970s with anthropologists\u27 involvement in the Mackenzie Valley Pipeline Inquiry and the James Bay Agreement