Two Dead White Men - DC Scott, Jacques Soustelle and the Failure of Indigenous Policy explores the complex careers of Duncan Campbell Scott and Jacques Soustelle.
Scott (1862-1947) was a poet and a key figure in the Canadian Indian Department for decades. Soustelle (1912 - 1990) was an eminent French ethnologist and notorious political figure as the last Governor General of French Algeria.
In this work of transnational intellectual history Cullingham demonstrates how these men incarnated the fundamental failure of their societies in relation with Indigenous peoples. Their experiences resonate in the present day of supposed reconciliation and decolonization.