Social Science and Medicine, vol. 64, no. 10, May 2007, pp. 2165-2176
Description
Explores four aspects of encounters: relating across assumed cultural differences, constructing "the Other" assumptions, influencing clinical practice and responding to routine patient requests.
Plot involves a young Shuswap woman who leaves her reserve for the city and is ultimately raped and murdered.
Originally published by Talonbooks, 1970.
The Canadian Geographer, vol. 51, no. 3, Fall, 2007, pp. 339-359
Description
Looks at residential schools and the people involved, as part of the policies of assimilation, enculturation or annihilation of Aboriginals. The author categorizes schools as 'intimate sites nested within Canadian colonial and nation-building agendas'.
Canadian Ethnic Studies, vol. 39, no. 1/2, 2007, pp. 219-224
Description
Reviews 3 books:
Unsettling Encounters: First Nations Imagery in the Art of Emily Carr by Gerta Moray.
Tsimshian Treasures: The Remarkable Journey of the Dundas edited by Donald Ellis.
Emily Carr: New Perspectives on a Canadian Icon Charles C.Hill, Johanne Lamoureux, Ian M. Thom, curators ; essays by Jay Steward and Peter Macnair ... [et al.]