Developmental Health and the Wealth of Nations: Social, Biological, and Educational Dynamics
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Alan R. Pence
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Describes author's experiences while developing an Aboriginal child care training program in collaboration with the Meadow Lake Tribal Council.
Chapter from Developmental Health and the Wealth of Nations: Social, Biological, and Educational Dynamics edited by Daniel .P. Keating and Clyde Hertzman.
The Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 7, no. 2, 1987, pp. 307-321
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Suggests that artifacts and other raw materials are equally as important as myths and kinships in delivering social messages within the central Inuit culture.
Native Studies Review, vol. 12, no. 2, Aboriginal Peoples and National Rights Issues in Quebec, 1999, pp. 5-12
Description
Overview of presentations delivered at the 1998 Conference of the Learned Societies which focused on the controversy surrounding the James Bay and Northern Quebec Agreement.
Consists of an interview where she gives an account of native use of plants for medicine. She tells of prophecies concerning the arrival of the white man and general accounts of her life in the bush.
Journal of Canadian Studies, vol. 18, no. 3, 1983, pp. 90-101
Description
Examines the wage income of rural northern Saskatchewan Indigenous communities and how Indigenous groups used this wage incomes as an adaptive strategy to preserve themselves in the contemporary world.
Joe Duquette, born 1904, on Mistawasis Reserve, never attended school, completely self-educated. Now Senator of F.S.I. and involved in teaching and counselling young people. He tells the story of his arranged marriage.
General comments: Very nice man though wanted to know who considers him a Metis Elder! Wife watching T.V. in background so there is lots of interference. General description of interviewee's life. No index terms are provided.
Native Studies Review, vol. 10, no. 2, 1995, pp. 1-34
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Examines the Indian Agent's efforts to manage failures and contradictions of Indian administration and the Secwepemc resistance to departmental intervention.
John McKay still tends to his family's trap-line at age seventy-six. Page one: picture of John McKay (at time of interview) Page two: picture of John and Mary Anne with their son Richard displaying furs (1950s). A picture of John's parents, Catherine and Roderick McKay.
Consists of an interview with Josephine Beaucage where she gives an account of trapping in the woods as well as an account of the preparation of hides.
Consists of an interview where she gives an account of how she found a man who had been lost in the woods. She also gives an account of experiences while trapping.
Brief biography of the youngest high school graduate and recipient of the Governor General's Academic Medal for the highest academic standing in her class.
States healing is the solution, starting in Aboriginal communities which can then prevent people from being captured by the revolving door of the justice system.
Note: This is a sample article from the publication. Subscriptions are available from the Native Law Centre.
Brief statement advocates that an integrated, holistic approach is crucial justice reform including the "healing process;" Ministers agreed, the existing system has failed, and the general system must be equitable.
Note: This is a sample article from the publication. Subscriptions are available from the Native Law Centre.
Aboriginal History, vol. 11, no. 2, 1987, pp. 185-189
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Book review of: Justice Programs for Aboriginal and Other Indigenous communities edited by Kayleen M. Hazlehurst.
Review located by scrolling to page 185.