Cross-Cultural Relations

Accord or Discord: Returning to Oral Traditions?

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Satoru Nakagawa
The Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 27, no. 2, 2007, pp. 451-477
Description
Considers how oral and written texts have contributed to the construction of societies and the foundational differences between societies.
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Achieving Cultural Integration in Health Services: Design of Comprehensive Hospital Model For Traditional Healing, Medicines, Foods and Supports

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Roger Walker
Helen Cromarty
Barbara Linkewich
Douglas Semple
Natalie St. Pierre-Hansen
et al.
Journal of Aboriginal Health, vol. 6, no. 1, Traditional Medicine, January 2010, pp. 58-69
Description
Presents a cross-cultural integration model, based on the experience of the Sioux Lookout Meno Ya Win Health Centre in Ontario, which would assist with the integration of traditional and contemporary health knowledge and practices.
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Achieving Cultural Safety in Aboriginal Health Services: Implementation of a Cross-cultural Safety Model in a Hospital Setting

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Roger Walker
Helen Cromarty
Len Kelly
Natalie St. Pierre-Hansen
Diversity in Health and Care, vol. 6, no. 1, 2009, pp. [11]-22
Description
Describes the Sioux Lookout Meno Ya Win Health model of cross-cultural care based on 5 key service aspects: governance, patient support, traditional healing practice, medicines, and foods.
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Acknowledging and Promoting Indigenous Knowledges, Paradigms, and Practices within Health Literacy-Related Policy and Practice Documents across Australia, Canada, and New Zealand

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Gordon Robert Boot
Anne Lowell
International Indigenous Policy Journal, vol. 10, no. 3, June 25, 2019
Description
Study assesses policy and practice documents relating to health literacy in three different countries to assess how Indigenous knowledge has been integrated into healthcare systems. Results showed that active integration and promotion of Indigenous health knowledge is limited.
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Across Australia ... From Health Worker to Health Worker

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Judy Djanumpi
Richard Saleh
Aboriginal & Islander Health Worker Journal, vol. 2, no. 2, June 1978, pp. 26-30
Description
Describes the experiences and challenges of Aboriginal health workers in a remote community in Australia.
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Across the Wide Missouri

Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Lew Richards
Whispering Wind, vol. 38, no. 5, Issue 267, May-June 2009, p. 28
Description
Book review of: Across the Wide Missouri by Bernard De Voto.
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"Active Readers...Observe Tricksters": Trickster Texts and Cross-Cultural Reading

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Bradley John Monsma
Modern Language Studies, vol. 26, no. 4, Autumn, 1996, pp. 83-98
Description
Discusses use of tricksters in oral and written narratives of many cultures that can aid in forming new literary histories, articulating resistance, reinterpreting individual author's works and to the colonizing literary theory.
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Activism and Apathy: The Prices We Pay for Both

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Devon A. Mihesuah
American Indian Quarterly , vol. 27, no. 1/2, Special Issue: Native Experiences in the Ivory Tower, Winter-Spring, 2003, pp. 325-332
Description
Article explores the motivations for and the root causes of both Indigenous apathy and activism within mainstream postsecondary institutions; assesses the cost to individuals for both.
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An Activist Posing as an Academic?

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Jeff J. Corntassel
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 27, Winter & Spring, 1 & 2 2003, pp. 160-171
Description
Presents personal experiences as an Indigenous professor within the university system.
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ACWS in Conversation with Lewis Cardinal

Alternate Title
Alberta Councial of Women's Shelters in Conversation with Lewis Cardinal
Building Relations Part 2: Stories from Community
Building Relationships Part 1: Lessons From Lewis
Circle Process
Foundations of Indigenous Worldviews
Indigenous Women in Indigenous Societies
Indigenous Women's Leadership
Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls: Inquiry and Action
Treaty Relations: Spirit, Intent, and First Nations Perspectives
[In Coversation with Lewis Cardinal]
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Lewis Cardinal
[Tina Fox
Stephanie Harpe
Tracy Bear
Karen MacKenzie
Betty Letendre
Cora Voyageur
Ruth Scalp Lock]
Description
Series of eight hour-long videos developed to educate women's shelter workers, but equally applicable to general audiences. Videos cover wide range of topics such as: treaty relationships; Indigenous worldviews; missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls; Indigenous women in Indigenous societies; women's leadership; and building relationships.
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Adam Solway Interview 1

Alternate Title
Indian History Film Project
Oral History » Oral Histories
Author/Creator
Adam Solway
Christine Welsh
Tony Snowsill
Indian History Film Project
Description
Consists of an interview where Adam Solway talks about being orphaned at 8 years and adopted by the Blackfoot Reserve, Alta; his attendance at a residential school; becoming a councillor and then chief of the reserve. He comments on the issues he had to deal with as well as providing comments on contemporary lifestyles and leadership.
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Adam Solway Interview 2

Alternate Title
Indian History Film Project
Oral History » Oral Histories
Author/Creator
Adam Solway
Christine Welsh
Tony Snowsill
Indian History Film Project
Description
This is a continuation of an interview with Adam Solway on January 29, 1983 on the Blackfoot Reserve.
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Adam Solway Interview 3

Alternate Title
Indian History Film Project
Oral History » Oral Histories
Author/Creator
Adam Solway
Christine Welsh
Tony Snowsill
Indian History Film Project
Description
Adam Solway talks about treaty rights vis-a- vis the Canadian Constitution.
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Adams, Howard, Prison of Grass (Ch. 7-9)

Articles » General
Description
A copy of Chapters 7 to 9 of Prison of Grass by Howard Adams ca. 1975, with notes from Laurie Barron attached. These chapters cover Adams' view of the 1885 North-West resistance. Barron has made a list of comments and questions, marked by page number, which appear to be directed to the author. These notes are perhaps Barron's feedback to Adams regarding the revised edition published in 1989.
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Addressing Aboriginal Land and Treaty Rights in Ontario:

An Analysis of Past Policies and Options for the Future

Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Michael Coyle
Description
Discusses the historic approach of governments and the courts in addressing Aboriginal rights relating to land, and some of the key historical circumstances that have prevented resolution of the issues in the past. The article also looks at the current federal and provincial land claims policies in Ontario.
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