Catching the Native Dreams: Interpreting American Indian Dream Stories
Theses
Author/Creator
Anand Sharma
Description
English Thesis (Ph.D.)--State University of New York at Buffalo, 2000.
Examines a collaboration between the Walpole Island First Nation and the neighboring Wallaceburg District Secondary School to improve the education of Indigenous students and what can be learned to address persistent educational issues for Indigenous populations nationwide.
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Relates how a non-Aboriginal parent's right to harvest organs and cremate an adoptive son superseded a Cree biological mother's right to bury her adult son according to First Nation spiritual and cultural beliefs.
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