Healing Traditions: The Mental Health of Aboriginal Peoples in Canada
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Author/Creator
Joseph P. Gone
Description
Summarizes three contradictions that the author has observed among First Nations psychology professionals.
Chapter 19 from Healing Traditions: The Mental Health of Aboriginal Peoples in Canada edited by Laurence J. Kirmayer and Gail Guthrie Valaskakis.
English Studies in Canada, vol. 35, no. 2-3, June/September 2009, pp. 145-164
Description
Looks at the identity conflicts affecting the main character, that of being torn between pursuing life within the context of white or Native tradition.
Comments on the benefits that are a result of academics and endangered language communities working together.
Anthropology and Linguistics paper (B.A.)--Bryn Mawr College, 2009.
Students received instruction for English as a second language, Navajo, and cultural teachings resulting in increased involvement, improved reading, math and science skills.
Provides information on substance abuse trends, risk and protective factors, prevention system challenges, reports findings from key informant interview and focus groups and a small sample of substance abuse prevention practices, programs and policies.
Looks at the Choctaw Nation in Mississippi with an unemployment rate of zero percent and a language retention rate of 90 %. It describes how things could change in Eskasoni and looks at the process of economic development.
Duration: 9:00.
The Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 1, no. 1, 1981, pp. 89-100
Description
Four leaders: Maniilaq, Punginguhk, Uyagaq and Egaq and their influence on maintaining Inuit cultural patterns through creative accommodation to white contact.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 31, no. 4, Winter, 2008, pp. ix-xxxii
Description
Author discusses the way that the ethnographic approach to captivity narratives such as Memoirs of Odd Adventures, Strange Deliverances, etc., in the Captivity of John Gyles and A Narrative of the Captivity of Mrs. Johnson promotes several assumptions about Indigenous culture and portrays them as foreign.
Includes list of online content evaluation guidelines, examples of sites developed in collaboration with Indigenous peoples, and guidelines for consultation.
Looks at several authors: Sherman Alexie, Janet Campbell Hale, Simon Ortiz, James Welch, and Gerald Vizenor.
Accompanying material.
Presentation compiled for conference Revisiting Indian Nations: Transatlantic and Transcultural Perspectives in Native American History, Tutzing, February 6-8, 2009.
Ground-breaking film chronicles twelve hours in the lives of young Native Americans who had migrated to Los Angeles from their reservations during the 1950s. Originally released in 1961.
Duration: 72:00.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 32, no. 2, Spring, 2008, pp. 121-140
Description
Author argues that the First Amendment to the Constitution of the United States doctrines contain no legal basis for regulating or eliminating the use of Indigenous symbols, images, or stereotypes as mascots or logos in sports and/or business.