Aboriginal Canada Revisited

by Knopf, Kerstin

• ISBN13: 9780776606798
• ISBN10: 0776606794
• eBook ISBN(s): 9780776617763
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-09-13
• Publisher: Univ of Ottawa Pr
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Summary

Exploring a variety of topics—including health, politics, education, art, literature, media, and film—Aboriginal Canada Revisited draws a portrait of the current political and cultural position of Canada’s Aboriginal peoples. While lauding improvements made in the past decades, the contributors draw attention to the systemic problems that continue to marginalize Aboriginal people within Canadian society. From the Introduction: [This collection helps to highlight areas where the colonial legacy still takes its toll, to acknowledge the manifold ways of Aboriginal cultural expression, and to demonstrate where Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal people are starting to find common ground.” Contributors include Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal scholars from Europe and Canada, including Marlene Atleo, University of Manitoba; Mansell Griffin, Nisga’a Village of Gitwinksihlkw, British Columbia; Robert Harding, University College of the Fraser Valley; Tricia Logan, University of Manitoba; Steffi Retzlaff, McMaster University; Siobhán Smith, University of British Columbia; Barbara Walberg, Confederation College.

Author Biography

Kerstin Knopf is assistant professor at the Department of English and American Studies at the University of Greifswald

Table of Contents

Introduction: Aboriginal Canada Revisited	p. 2
Health, Social Issues, Politics
De-colonizing Canadian Aboriginal Health and Social Services from the Inside Out: A Case Study-The Ahousaht Holistic Society	p. 30
The Commission on the Future of Health Care in Canada: A Case Study of Aboriginal Health	p. 50
The Nisga'a Common Bowl in Tradition and Politics	p. 72
Education
Metis Scholarship in the 21st Century: Life on the Periphery	p. 88
Responding to the Needs of Post-secondary Aboriginal Education: The Development of the Indigenous Leadership and Community Development Program	p. 100
Imagining and Imaging the "Indian"
The Imaginary Indian in German Children's Non-Fiction Literature	p. 122
The Art of Exclusion: The Status of Aboriginal Art in the McMichael Canadian Art Collection	p. 158
Literature
"Decolonizing the Mind": Drew Hayden Taylor's Play with the Semantics of Irony in Only Drunks and Children Tell the Truth	p. 198
Humorous Restorifications: Rewriting History with Healing Laughter	p. 220
Modernizing the "Indian": Literary Constructions of the Native in Selected Novels by Thomas King	p. 246
Reflections of Oral Traditions in Contemporary Native Writing: Ruby Slipperjack's Honour the Sun	p. 270
Print Media and Film
Aboriginal Child Welfare: Symbolic Battleground in the News Media	p. 290
'The Elders have said' - Projecting Aboriginal cultural values into contemporary news discourse	p. 330
"Stolen Sisters": Discrimination and Violence Against Aboriginal Women as Represented in Canadian Films	p. 360
List of Contributors	p. 396
Index	p. 402
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