Native Ground: Protecting and Preserving History, Culture, and Customs
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Gretchen Eick
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Focuses on three writers who wrote about their traumatic childhoods which collectively cover from 1862 to 1920.
Presented at the Tenth Native American Symposium, November 14-15, 2013.
Chapter from Native Ground: Protecting and Preserving History, Culture, and Customs edited by Mark B. Spencer.
Highlights the Community Health Demonstration Program.
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Discussion of international legal principle created and justified by ideas of European superiority; doctrine provided newly arrived Europeans with automatic property rights and entitled them to exercise governmental, political, and commercial power over the original inhabitants.
Panel discussion at the Truth and Reconciliation Commission's closing events.
Duration: 1:03:21.
BMC Public Health, vol. 15, 2015, p. article no. 1222
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Cross sectional survey (2012/13) conducted with Beardy's and Okemasis' Cree Nation and Montreal Lake Cree Nation involved 580 households and 1570 adult participants. Found that residential school attendance and cultural disruption were not predictive of diabetes, while those experiencing the highest level of racism had low prevalence. Authors suggest that the latter finding may be the result of increased interaction with off-reserve society.
ita [Industry Training Authority] Aboriginal Initiatives
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Discusses challenges and issues and the essential elements in employment counseling services and training programs including finding candidates, defining program's purpose, assessing participant readiness, and providing support and resources. Based on experiences of organizations in British Columbia.
Journal of Genocide Research, vol. 17, no. 4, Special issue on Canada and Colonial Genocide, 2015, pp. 473-493
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Looks at three periods of reconciliation: Section 37 Constitutional Talks, Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples, restitution for Indian Residential School Survivors.
Consists of an interview with Eliza Kneller where she describes the smallpox epidemic following World War I. She gives a description of basket making, an account of life in a Catholic school in Chicago and an account of New Year's celebrations amongst children.
Consists of an interview where she gives a brief account of Indian medicine; she mentions accounts she has heard of the War of 1812; and mentions certain superstitions.
Consists of an interview where she discusses the abuses of the educational system when she was a child. She also gives an account of her experiences during the Second World War.
Compares the role of Indigenous hunters as portrayed in the novels Pursuing the Whale by John A. Cook, and Chasing the Bowhead by Hartson H. Bodfish to Brower's Fifty Years Below Zero
Reviews past and present initiatives, recommendations and research, and reports on information gathered through consultation with social agencies and community members.
Journal of Genocide Research, vol. 17, no. 4, Special Issue on Canadian and Colonial Genocide, 2015, pp. 391-409
Description
Looks at the theory of refusal in Mohawk Interruptus by Audra Simpson and details of the changes on the northern plains in late nineteenth century in Clearing the Plains by James Daschuk and Metis and the Medicine Line by Michel Hogue.
Provides overview of the historical and contemporary contexts of racism which have resulted in health disparities between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal Canadians and examines possible responses and interventions.