Colonizing Bodies: Aboriginal Health and Healing in British Columbia, 1900--1950
Theses
Author/Creator
Mary-Ellen Kelm
Description
History Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Toronto, 1994.
Relates how a non-Aboriginal parent's right to harvest organs and cremate an adoptive son superseded a Cree biological mother's right to bury her adult son according to First Nation spiritual and cultural beliefs.
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Brief overview of historical relationship between Aboriginal and settler peoples, Aboriginal cultures, past and present public policies, and current challenges for urban residents.