Aboriginal Peoples Fact and Fiction
E-Books
Author/Creator
Pierre Lepage
Description
3rd edition updated and expanded.
Critiques the Canadian fantasy of innocence and niceness regarding its historical colonial practices.
Relates how a non-Aboriginal parent's right to harvest organs and cremate an adoptive son superseded a Cree biological mother's right to bury her adult son according to First Nation spiritual and cultural beliefs.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article scroll to p.1.
Brief overview of historical relationship between Aboriginal and settler peoples, Aboriginal cultures, past and present public policies, and current challenges for urban residents.