Article describes the ways that colonial governments identified and signaled out “criminal tribes” in India, how the identity, language and culture of these tribes was stigmatized and consequently diminished. Describes present-day efforts to protect and revitalize these languages and cultures and provides commentary on the effectiveness of these efforts.
Indigenous Cultures and Mental Health Counselling: Four Directions for Integration with Counselling Psychology
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Author/Creator
Terry Mitchell
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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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Opinion piece in which the author works to document their efforts to close the spatial distance between researcher and researched through a series of vignettes, and later reflects on the results of their work.
Reports on issues raised by Indigenous clients themselves and discusses features of Aboriginal varieties of English and how linguistic prejudice may affect interactions between lawyer and client and court outcomes.
University of Saskatchewan Undergraduate Research Journal, vol. 3, no. 2, April 2017, pp. 1-8
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An analysis of four primary sources published by William Johnson, Superintendent of Northern Indian Affairs, British General Charles Lee, University of Pennsylvania Provost William Smith, and plantation owner and British soldier Peter Williamson.
Protocol is comprised of six key principles: self-determination and inclusion in all stages of the research process; acting in good faith; understanding determinants of health; recognition of culture and vision and culturally-grounded research and solutions; respect for local peoples and their ways of knowing, Elders and ancestral understandings; and incorporating Two-Eyed Seeing into process.
Native Studies Review, vol. 12, no. 1, Special Issue, 1999, p. 63–94
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The author examines her own intellectual and personal colonization and the continued oppression of First Nations people and discusses how Aboriginal women need to be involved in restorative justice.
Transmotion, vol. 3, no. 2, December 6, 2017, pp. 1-29
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Literary criticism article discusses themes of survivance and transmotion in Vizenor’s (1978) and Jones’ (2000) debut novels, considers contexts of postmodernism and carceral theory, and the generational difference between the two authors.
Wicazo Sa Review, vol. 14, no. 1, Spring, 1999, pp. 147-163
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Looks at the historical relationship, from a small town perspective, between people on the Nez Perce reservation and the United States, be it government or local level interactions.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 41, no. 2, 2017, pp. 65-92
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Analysis of rhetoric used in news coverage of 1998 referendum on the Nisga'a Treaty and 2002 BC Treaty Referendum in the National Post, Globe and Mail, Vancouver Sun, The Province, Abbotsford Times, Chilliwack Times, and Kamloops Daily News.
Looks at the social and economic development responsibilities of Cameco and the mutual benefit of the Aboriginal and corporate relationship to Cameco and the Lac La Ronge Indian Band.
Native Studies Review, vol. 12, no. 2, Aboriginal Peoples and National Rights Issues in Quebec, 1999, pp. 115-120
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Grand Chief of the Grand Council of Crees discusses the stance of the James Bay Cree with respect to the right to determine their own political future whether or not Quebec decides to separate.
Report (Northern Labour Market Information Clearinghouse) ; no. 68
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Brief document outlines some of the conflicts that can occur between Aboriginal workers and non-Aboriginal employers, and makes suggestions as to how colleges could help to facilitate interactions.
Journal of Canadian Studies, vol. 34, Fall, 1999, pp. 59-86
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Argues that there is a direct relationship between classroom study of First Nation literature and the transformation of mainstream culture and images of Aboriginal cultures.
Anthropology & Medicine, vol. 6, no. 3, 1999, pp. 405-421
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Interviews patients, family, primary care providers and language interpreters to look at cultural interpretations of mortality, disease prognosis, and perspectives for end of life decisions.
Journal of Indigenous Social Development, vol. 6, no. 2, 2017, pp. [23]-49
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Explores collective documentary filmmaking as an instrument of decolonizing storytelling, describes the consensus-based work of a diverse group including both Indigenous and settler artists involved in the Stories of Decolonization project's first short film Stories of Decolonization: Land Dispossession and Settlement.
Journal of Indigenous Social Development, vol. 5, no. 2, 2017, pp. 20-12
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Study looks at how to create culturally safe research methods for improving health equity; stresses that trust is the overarching theme fundamental to cultural safety, and that this trust is built by accommodating and engaging cultural and community practices and knowledges.