Podcast of Interview with artist about his exhibition Awareness Series which focuses on the government's policy of issuing numbered disks to Inuit rather than referring to them by name.
Duration: 6:54.
Indigenous Cultures and Mental Health Counselling: Four Directions for Integration with Counselling Psychology
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Terry Mitchell
Description
Looks at the effects of personal and collective trauma through a political lens.
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Chapter from Indigenous Cultures and Mental Health Counselling edited by Suzanne L. Stewart, Roy Moodley, and Ashely Hyatt.
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Canadian Historical Review, vol. 76, no. 4, December 1995, pp. 628-643
Description
Critical commentary on the article "Desperately Seeking Absolution: Native Agency as Colonist Alibi?" by Robin Brownlie and Mary-Ellen Kelm, published in Canadian Historical Review Vol. 75, No. 4, December 1994, pp. 543-557.
International Journal of Canadian Studies, no. 12, Aboriginal Peoples and Canada, Fall, 1995, pp. [30]-49
Description
Discusses the National Galley of Canada's first exhibit of contemporary First Nations art in the context of nationhood and identity.
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Describes the history of Canada's residential schools which were financed by the federal government, but largely run by various religious organizations.
Author of Separate Beds speaks about the history of segregation, discrimination, and substandard facilities, care and funding in the Indian Hospital Service.
Duration: 15:56.
Describes and compares the politics of land, sovereignty, labour, race relations and law enforcement enacted in the two countries by settler governments. Details general practices and events which illustrate the politics described.
Grand Chief of the Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs speaks about his background, challenges faced by community chiefs and First Nations political organizations, and the how the land plays a central role in attempts at reconciliation
Duration: 59:54.
AlterNative, vol. 13, no. 3, Fostering Cultural Safety Across Contexts, September 2017, pp. 142-151
Description
Looks at links between historic and contemporary rationales for interfering with Indigenous families and discusses how literary arts can foster cross-cultural and cross-generational understanding.