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When acculturation takes place through the interaction of a dominant group and a relatively small or weak group, the smaller group will usually adopt elements of the dominant culture, and will probably lose certain elements in its traditional culture. Historically, acculturative influences from Eurocanadian society have come to native Canadian groups through commercial, religious, military, political, and educational institutions (Berry, 1981). In recent years, education has been recognized as a particularly important channel of acculturation for the Canadian native people, to the point that it has been viewed by some of them as a means of imposing a policy of assimilation (Cardinal, 1969), signifying an effort to replace their indigenous cultures with Eurocanadian culture.
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Mawhinney, T.A. (1983). A Picture Vocabulary Test for the Eastern James Bay Cree. In: Irvine, S.H., Berry, J.W. (eds) Human Assessment and Cultural Factors. NATO Conference Series, vol 21. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-2151-2_44
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