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
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Terry Mitchell
Description
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.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 27, no. 3, Special Issue: Native Experiences in the Ivory Tower, Winter-Spring, 2003, pp. 196-199
Description
Author details their experience of systemic and personal racism as graduate student and lecturer in the Anthropology department of a University in the United States.
American Educational Research Journal, vol. 32, no. 3, Autumn, 1995, pp. 493-522
Description
Argues that the fundamental changes needed in the way that diversity is dealt with in the classroom could be accomplished by moving from a lesson plan-centered approach to a inquiry-centered approach.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 19, no. 1, 1995, pp. 97-118
Description
Looks at films as social barometers of attitudes and ideologies; films discussed: Dances With Wolves, Black Robe, Thunderheart, Clearcut, Loyalties, Company of Strangers, Where the Spirit Lives, Spirit Rider, and Powwow Highway.
Research Project Report (Urban Aboriginal Knowledge Network) ; 2017
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
John R. Sylliboy
Tuma Young
Description
Through 20 in-depth interviews project gathered information on socio-cultural context, state of mental health and well-being during process, and supports which were relied upon.
Searched conducted for articles and reports published between August 2015 and January 2017 using PsychINFO, Embase, CINAHL and Medline. Identified 14 items of strong and moderate quality with content pertaining to the U.S., New Zealand, and Australia.
Journal of Canadian Studies, vol. 51, no. 2, Spring, 2017, pp. 520-532
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Article examines non-fiction texts about the search for the Northwest Passage to illustrate the contributions of Inuit people and communities to Arctic exploration.
Aboriginal Policy Studies, vol. 6, no. 2, 2017, pp. 142-163
Description
Based on analysis of transcripts of Hirsekorn case in which judges had to render a decision on the Métis identity of the accused and his membership in a rights-holding Métis community.
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.
Child Welfare: Connecting Research, Policy, and Practice
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Author/Creator
Brad McKenzie
Elsie Flette
Description
Chapter from Child Welfare: Connecting Research, Policy, and Practice edited by Kathleen Kufeldt and Brad McKenzie.
Material presented as exhibit 131 from the Phoenix Sinclair Inquiry.
Aboriginal and Islander Health Worker Journal, vol. 19, no. 5, September/October 1995, pp. 32-33
Description
Comments on topics for future priorities regarding policy development identified by the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Standing Committee and the Emotional and Social Well Being working party's role in mental health well being.
Text of lecture given by the Canada Research Chair in Native -Newcomer Relations. Examines the Native-newcomer relationship, including treaty negotiations from first contact forward.