Examines how the federalisation of Aboriginal people and the racial reactions to it gave birth to a redefinition of Aboriginality in Australia.
Excerpt from Disability Studies & Indigenous Studies.
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Examines the controversy over the question of the author's Aboriginality and ethnicity.
Excerpt from Disability Studies & Indigenous Studies.
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Culturally Diverse Mental Health; the Challenges of Research and Resistance
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Joseph P. Gone
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Chapter 12 from book: Culturally Diverse Mental Health; the Challenges of Research and Resistance edited by S. Mio and G.Y. Iwamasa.
Addresses the dilemma of conventional mental health services versus alternative interventions.
Compares how two well-known Aboriginal works challenge limiting definitions of Aboriginal peoples and shows how the legal system manipulates these definitions to take away land or rights.
Excerpt from Disability Studies & Indigenous Studies.
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Child Welfare: Connecting Research, Policy, and Practice
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Brad McKenzie
Elsie Flette
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Chapter from Child Welfare: Connecting Research, Policy, and Practice edited by Kathleen Kufeldt and Brad McKenzie.
Material presented as exhibit 131 from the Phoenix Sinclair Inquiry.
Raising Adult Literacy Skills: The Need for A Pan-Canadian Response: Report of the Standing committee on Human Resources Development and Status of Persons With Disabilities
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Standing Committee on Human Resources Development and the Status of Persons with Disabilities
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Chapter Four of Raising Adult Literacy Skills: The Need for A Pan-Canadian Response
Demonstrates how Aboriginal women writers have developed a method of literary production termed "The Dreamed Narrative."
Excerpt from Disability Studies & Indigenous Studies.
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Cross-Culturalism in Children's Literature: Proceedings of the Annual International Conference of Children's Literature Association ; 14th
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Robin McGrath
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Plenary paper from:Cross-Culturalism in Children's Literature: Selected Papers From the 1987 International Conference of Children's Literature Association (14th, Ottawa, Canada, May 14-17, 1987) edited by Susan R. Gannon, Ruth Anne Thompson.
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Girls and Literacy in America: Historical Perspectives to the Present
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Amy M. Goodburn
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Looks at how educational and societal ideologies shaped girls' writing and its reception by examining content of students' essays.
Chapter from Girls and Literacy in America: Historical Perspectives to the Present edited by Jane Greer.
The Psychological Impact of War Trauma on Civilians
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Betty Bastien
Jürgen W. Kremer
Rauna Kuokkanen
Patricia Vickers
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Looks at three geographical areas and several groups including Sami, Tsimshian, and Niisitapi and where initial colonial violence has given way to other forms of violence.
Chapter from The Psychological Impact of War Trauma on Civilians edited by Stanley Krippner and Teresa M. McIntyre.
Discusses the introduction of the fur trade in Southern Alberta and the role of the Siksika leader.
Excerpt from Disability Studies & Indigenous Studies.
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Demonstrates how the process of homogeneity imposed on Indian communities by the US government has created individuals possessing Indian roots but heavily influenced by American pop-culture. Uses two short stories by Sherman Alexie (Assimilation and Class) in his analysis.
Excerpt from Disability Studies & Indigenous Studies.
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Discusses the renegotiation of culture-state relationships as an opportunity and obligation to enrich current debate and open up possibilities by revaluing Aboriginal knowledge and heritage and recognizing the benefits of co-operative, cross-disciplinary, and cross-cultural practices.
Excerpt from Disability Studies & Indigenous Studies edited by James Gifford and Gabrielle Zezukla-Mailloux.
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Focuses on three programs: Second Chance, a program for Aboriginal offenders which used Creative Problem Solving, Northern Lights project in three rural Manitoba school districts which used the Lost Prizes program, and the Mentoring At-Risk-Students Project which dealt with inner-city Aboriginal children and youth.
Excerpt from Mentoring for Talent Development.
Chapter 13 from Nurturing Native Languages edited by Jon Reyhner, Octaviana V. Trujillo, Roberto Luis Carrasco, Louise Lockard.
Looks at a form of theatre where the actors share their own stories.
International Conference of Canadian Studies ; 1st, 2003
Other Language Otherness in Canadian Culture
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Naila Clerici
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Examines European constructions of Indigenous peoples and interactions between the two groups.
Chapter from Other Language Otherness in Canadian Culture.
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Presents two case studies illustrating identity politics in which Aboriginal Tasmanians are routinely immersed and then explains why and how the politics have developed.
Excerpt from Disability Studies & Indigenous Studies.
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Not Strangers in These Parts: Urban Aboriginal People
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Terry Wotherspoon
pp. 147-165
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Discusses the concept of new middle classes and its implications in regards to the social interactions, economic possibilities, and political alignments that are affecting Aboriginal people and their relations with both one another and within Canadian society.
Chapter from Not Strangers in These Parts: Urban Aboriginal Peoples edited by David Newhouse and Evelyn Peters.
Focuses on how race-related genetic classifications are constructed and hints at possible consequences for minority groups.
Chapter 6 from: Surveillance as Social Sorting: Privacy, Risk, And Digital Discrimination edited by David Lyon.
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Connections: Non-Native Responses to Native Canadian Literature
[Creative New Literature Series ; 62]
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Gerry Turcotte
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Argues that even though King expresses a dislike of the term "post-colonial" and what it implies about Indigenous literature, he still engages in "writing back" to European master narratives.
Chapter from Connections: Non-Native Responses to Native Canadian Literature edited by Hartmut Lutz and Coomi S. Vevaina.
Argues that the relationality of Indigenous and non-Indigenous constituencies within the postcolonial nation in Australia has always been mediated by the discourse of race.
Excerpt from Disability Studies & Indigenous Studies.
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Chapter from the book, The Native in Literature: Canadian and Comparative Perspectives. Examines the image of Native people in contemporary critical writing.
Circle of Goods: Women, Work, and Welfare in a Reservation Community
SUNY Series in Anthropological Studies of Contemporary Issues
SUNY Series in Anthropology of Work
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Tressa Berman
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Looks at women's role to maintain economy and culture of reservation life.
Chapter one from, Circle of Goods: Women, Work, and Welfare in a Reservation Community by Tressa Berman.
Analyzes the difference between Theresa Delaney and Theresa Bowanlock's verbal account of their time in the camp and the published "captivity narrative".
Excerpt from Disability Studies & Indigenous Studies edited by James Gifford and Gabrielle Zezulka-Mailloux
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