Author: Canada. Department of Indian Affairs
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Category : Indians of North America
Languages : en
Pages : 510

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Author: Kristin Burnett
Publisher: UBC Press
ISBN: 0774818301
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 249

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Hunters, medicine men, and missionaries continue to dominate images and narratives of the West, even though historians have recognized women’s role as colonizer and colonized since the 1980s. Kristin Burnett helps to correct this imbalance by presenting colonial medicine as a gendered phenomenon. Although the imperial eye focused on medicine men, Aboriginal women in the Treaty 7 region served as healers and caregivers – to their own people and to settler society – until the advent of settler-run hospitals and nursing stations. By revealing Aboriginal and settler women’s contributions to health care, Taking Medicine challenges traditional understandings of colonial medicine in the contact zone.

Author: Canada. Dept. of Labour
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Category : Labor
Languages : en
Pages : 1066

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Author: United States. Office of Indian Affairs
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Category : Indians of North America
Languages : en
Pages : 72

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Author: James Rodger Miller
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 9780802078582
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 602

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This book is an absolute first in its comprehensive treatment of this subject. J.R. Miller has written a new chapter in the history of relations between indigenous and immigrant peoples in Canada.

Author: United States. Dept. of the Interior
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Category : Public lands
Languages : en
Pages : 1236

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Author: Canada. Parliament. House of Commons
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Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 1144

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Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1032

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Author: United States. Office of Education
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Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 586

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Author: Katherine Pettipas
Publisher: Univ. of Manitoba Press
ISBN: 0887553648
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 329

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Religious ceremonies were an inseparable part of Aboriginal traditional life, reinforcing social, economic, and political values. However, missionaries and government officials with ethnocentric attitudes of cultural superiority decreed that Native dances and ceremonies were immoral or un-Christian and an impediment to the integration of the Native population into Canadian society. Beginning in 1885, the Department of Indian Affairs implemented a series of amendments to the Canadian Indian Act, designed to eliminate traditional forms of religious expression and customs, such as the Sun Dance, the Midewiwin, the Sweat Lodge, and giveaway ceremonies.However, the amendments were only partially effective. Aboriginal resistance to the laws took many forms; community leaders challenged the legitimacy of the terms and the manner in which the regulations were implemented, and they altered their ceremonies, the times and locations, the practices, in an attempt both to avoid detection and to placate the agents who enforced the law.Katherine Pettipas views the amendments as part of official support for the destruction of indigenous cultural systems. She presents a critical analysis of the administrative policies and considers the effects of government suppression of traditional religious activities on the whole spectrum of Aboriginal life, focussing on the experiences of the Plains Cree from the mid-1880s to 1951, when the regulations pertaining to religious practices were removed from the Act. She shows how the destructive effects of the legislation are still felt in Aboriginal communities today, and offers insight into current issues of Aboriginal spirituality, including access to and use of religious objects held in museum repositories, protection of sacred lands and sites, and the right to indigenous religious practices in prison.