Healing Histories: Stories from Canada's Indian Hospitals
E-Books
Author/Creator
Laurie Meijer Drees
Historical note:
Transcripts of interviews recorded in 1971 and 1972 with members of the five Dakota Nations in Manitoba and the White Cap Dakota Nation in Saskatchewan.
Consists of an interview with Joe Sylvester where he gives an account of Indian medicine; legends concerning migration of Algonquin Indians; the role of elders; of the deterioration of reservation conditions following World War II; the religious significance of the number "four"; views on welfare and its role in disrupting traditional Indian values; and a legend about the origin of the drum.