One participant was Aboriginal hunter, one was a French Canadian farmer, and one was an immigrant from England. Focus was on six characteristics: language, religion, social relations, family, intergenerational links, and rites of passage.
Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 13, no. 2, 1993, pp. 171-198
Description
Argues that anthropologists may experience dreams and visions similar to those whom they study and that it is useful to incorporate such experiences into ethnographic descriptions.
Looks at aesthetic philosophies, techniques and personal styles of four Aboriginal female artists; Doreen Jensen, Rena Point Bolton, Jane Ash Poitras, Joane Cardinal-Schubert.
Duration: 51:49.
Poitras, once labeled an angry artist, believes anger is foreign to Indigenous philosophies and traditions, instead dictates forgiveness. Her works have display evils done to First Nations people by the church, Western materialism, residential schools and alcohol, but her own worldview is that trials and suffering lead to redemption.
This file contains a transcript of a portion of a sitting of the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples at Vancouver, British Columbia. This portion includes a presentation for the National Aboriginal Veterans Association by Elder Ken Harris and Harry Lavallee concerning experiences and issues of veterans in the Aboriginal Community. Also included are questions from the assembled commissioners Co-Chair George Erasmus and Viola Robinson.