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The arts of Indigenous health and well-being

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Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
2021
Publisher
Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada : University of Manitoba Press
Call Number
07.2 S9t
Responsibility
Edited by Nancy Van Styvendale, J. D. McDougall, Robert Henry, and Robert Alexander Innes
Publisher
Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada : University of Manitoba Press
Published Date
2021
Physical Description
272 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Indigenous
Indigenous Culture
Indigenous Traditions
Indigenous Peoples
Health
Oral History
Medicine
Abstract
Drawing attention to the ways in which creative practices are essential to the health, well-being, and healing of Indigenous peoples, The Arts of Indigenous Health and Well-Being addresses the effects of artistic endeavour on the "good life", or mino-pimatisiwin in Cree, which can be described as the balanced interconnection of physical, emotional, spiritual, and mental well-being. In this interdisciplinary collection, Indigenous knowledges inform an approach to health as a wider set of relations that are central to well-being, wherein artistic expression furthers cultural continuity and resilience, community connection, and kinship to push back against forces of fracture and disruption imposed by colonialism. The need for healing--not only individuals but health systems and practices--is clear, especially as the trauma of colonialism is continually revealed and perpetuated within health systems. The field of Indigenous health has recently begun to recognize the fundamental connection between creative expression and well-being. This book brings together scholarship by humanities scholars, social scientists, artists, and those holding experiential knowledge from across Turtle Island to add urgently needed perspectives to this conversation. Contributors embrace a diverse range of research methods, including community-engaged scholarship with Indigenous youth, artists, Elders, and language keepers. The Arts of Indigenous Health and Well-Being demonstrates the healing possibilities of Indigenous works of art, literature, film, and music from a diversity of Indigenous peoples and arts traditions. This book will resonate with health practitioners, community members, and any who recognize the power of art as a window, an entryway to access a healthy and good life. -- Provided by publisher.
Contents
"Art for life's sake": approaches to indigenous arts, health, and well-being / Nancy Van Styvendale, J.D. McDougall, Robert Henry, and Robert Alexander Innes -- What this pouch holds / Gail MacKay -- Baskets, birchbark scrolls, and maps of land: indigenous making practices as oral historiography / Andrea Riley-Mukavetz -- For Kaydence and her cousins: health and happiness in cultural legacies and contemporary contexts / Adesola Akinleye -- Stories and staying power: artmaking as (re)source of cultural resilience and well-being for Panniqtumiut / Alena Rosen -- Healthy connections: facilitator's perceptions of programming linking arts and wellness with indigenous youth / Mamata Pandey, Nuno F. Ribeiro, Warren Linds, Linda M. Goulet, Jo-Ann Episkenew, and Karen Schmidt -- The doubleness of sound in Canada's Indian residential schools / Beverley Diamond -- Kissed by lightning: mediating Haudenosaunee traditional teachings through film / Nicholle Dragone -- Minobimaadiziwinke (creating a good life): native bodies healing / Petra Kuppers and Margaret Noodin -- Body counts: war, pesticides, and queer spirituality in Cherri´e Moraga's Heroes and saints / Desiree Hellegers -- The language of soul and ceremony / Louise Halfe -- Sa^kihiwa^win: land's overflow into the space-tial "otherwise" / Karyn Recollet.
ISBN
9780887559396
Accession Number
P2023.09
Call Number
07.2 S9t
Collection
Archives Library
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Canadian law and indigenous self-determination : a naturalist analysis

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Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
2019
Author
Christie, Gordon
Publisher
Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press
Call Number
07.2 C46c
Author
Christie, Gordon
Publisher
Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press
Published Date
2019
Physical Description
vi, 440 pages ; 23 cm
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Indigenous
Indigenous Culture
Indigenous Customs
Indigenous Peoples
Law
Canada
Abstract
For centuries, Canadian sovereignty has existed uneasily alongside forms of Indigenous legal and political authority. Canadian Law and Indigenous Self-Determination demonstrates how, over the last few decades, Canadian law has attempted to remove Indigenous sovereignty from the Canadian legal and social landscape. Adopting a naturalist analysis, Gordon Christie responds to questions about how to theorize this legal phenomenon, and how the study of law should accommodate the presence of diverse perspectives. Exploring the socially-constructed nature of Canadian law, Christie reveals how legal meaning, understood to be the outcome of a specific society, is being reworked to devalue the capacities of Indigenous societies. Addressing liberal positivism and critical postcolonial theory, Canadian Law and Indigenous Self-Determination considers the way in which Canadian jurists, working within a world circumscribed by liberal thought, have deployed the law in such a way as to attempt to remove Indigenous meaning-generating capacity. -- Provided by publisher.
Contents
Setting the stage -- Canadian law and its puzzles -- Differing understandings and the way forward -- Remarks on theorizing and method -- Problems with theorizing about the law -- Liberal positivism and aboriginal rights -- Characterizing and defining 'existing' aboriginal rights -- The place of aboriginal rights in Canada -- Postcolonial theory and aboriginal law.
ISBN
9781442628991
Accession Number
P2023.12
Call Number
07.2 C46c
Collection
Archives Library
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Carrying the burden of peace : reimagining Indigenous masculinities through story

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Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
2021
Author
McKegney, Sam
Publisher
Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada : University of Regina Press
Call Number
07.2 M19c
Author
McKegney, Sam
Publisher
Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada : University of Regina Press
Published Date
2021
Physical Description
xxxiii, 263 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Indigenous
Indigenous Culture
Indigenous Customs
Indigenous Peoples
Indigenous Traditions
Masculinity
Canada
History
Abstract
Through rigorous engagement with Indigenous literary art, Carrying the Burden of Peace highlights the decolonial potential of Indigenous masculinities. Can a critical examination of Indigenous masculinities be an honour song--one that celebrates rather than pathologizes; one that seeks diversity and strength; one that overturns heteropatriarchy without centering settler colonialism? Can a critical examination of Indigenous masculinities even be creative, inclusive, erotic? Carrying the Burden of Peace answers affirmatively. Countering the perception that masculinity has been so contaminated as to be irredeemable, the book explores Indigenous literary art for understandings of masculinity that exceed the impoverished inheritance of colonialism. Carrying the Burden of Peace weaves together stories of Indigenous life, love, eroticism, pain, and joy to map the contours of diverse, empowered, and non-dominant Indigenous masculinities. It is from here that a more balanced world may be pursued. -- Provided by publisher.
Contents
Indigenous masculinities and story -- Shame and deterritorialization -- Journeying back to the body -- De(f/v)iant generosity: gender and the gift -- Masculinity and kinship -- Naked and dreaming forward: a conclusion.
ISBN
9780889777934
Accession Number
P2023.15
Call Number
07.2 M19c
Collection
Archives Library
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Exactly what I said : translating words and worlds

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Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
2022
Author
Yeoman, Elizabeth
Publisher
Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada : University of Manitoba Press
Call Number
07.2 Y4e
Author
Yeoman, Elizabeth
Publisher
Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada : University of Manitoba Press
Published Date
2022
Physical Description
276 pages : illustrations, map ; 23 cm
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Indigenous
Indigenous Culture
Indigenous Peoples
Indigenous Traditions
Language
Translation
Abstract
'You don't have to use the exact same words.... But it has to mean exactly what I said.' Thus began the ten-year collaboration between Innu elder and activist Tshaukuesh Elizabeth Penashue and Memorial University professor Elizabeth Yeoman that produced the celebrated Nitinikiau Innusi: I Keep the Land Alive, an English-language edition of Penashue's journals, originally written in Innu-aimun during her decades of struggle for Innu sovereignty. Exactly What I Said: Translating Words and Worlds reflects on that collaboration and what Yeoman learned from it. It is about naming, mapping, and storytelling; about photographs, collaborative authorship, and voice; about walking together on the land and what can be learned along the way. Combining theory with personal narrative, Yeoman weaves together ideas, memories, and experiences--of home and place, of stories and songs, of looking and listening--to interrogate the challenges and ethics of translation. Examining what it means to relate whole worlds across the boundaries of language, culture, and history, Exactly What I Said offers an accessible, engaging reflection on respectful and responsible translation and collaboration.-- Provided by publisher.
Contents
Introduction -- Mapping -- Walking -- Stories -- Looking -- Signs -- Literacies -- Listening -- Songs -- Wilderness
ISBN
9780887552731
Accession Number
P2023.07
Call Number
07.2 Y4e
Collection
Archives Library
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Honouring the strength of Indian women : plays, stories, poetry

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Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
2019
Author
Manuel, Vera
Publisher
Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada : University of Manitoba Press
Call Number
07.2 M31h
Author
Manuel, Vera
Responsibility
Vera Manuel = Kulilu Pal ki, Edited by Michelle Coupal, Deanna Reder, Joanne Arnott, and Emalene A. Manuel ; introduction by Emalene A. Manuel ; afterwords by Michelle Coupal, Deanna Reder, and Joanne Arnott.
Publisher
Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada : University of Manitoba Press
Published Date
2019
Physical Description
xii, 391 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 22 cm
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Indigenous
Indigenous Culture
Indigenous Customs
Indigenous Art
Indigenous Peoples
Indigenous Traditions
Women
Ktunaxa
Secwepemc
Abstract
This critical edition delivers a unique and comprehensive collection of the works of Ktunaxa-Secwepemc writer and educator Vera Manuel, daughter of prominent Indigenous leaders Marceline Paul and George Manuel. A vibrant force in the burgeoning Indigenous theatre scene, Vera was at the forefront of residential school writing and did groundbreaking work as a dramatherapist and healer. Long before mainstream Canada understood and discussed the impact and devastating legacy of Canada's Indian residential schools, Vera Manuel wrote about it as part of her personal and community healing. She became a grassroots leader addressing the need to bring to light the stories of survivors, their journeys of healing, and the therapeutic value of writing and performing arts. A collaboration by four Indigenous writers and scholars steeped in values of Indigenous ethics and editing practices, the volume features Manuel's most famous play, "Strength of Indian Women"--First performed in 1992 and still one of the most important literary works to deal with the trauma of residential schools-along with an assemblage of plays, written between the late 1980s until Manuel's untimely passing in 2010, that were performed but never before published. The volume also includes three previously unpublished short stories written in 1988, poetry written over three decades in a variety of venues, and a 1987 college essay that draws on family and community interviews on the effects of residential schools. -- Provided by publisher.
Contents
Introduction / Emalene A. Manuel -- Plays. Strength of Indian women -- Song of the circle -- Journey through the past to the future -- Echoes of our Mothers' past -- Every warrior's song -- Stories. That grey building -- Theresa -- The letter -- The abyss -- Poetry. The storm -- Woman without a tongue -- Ghosts & predators -- L.A. Obsession song -- Addictions -- Lies -- Life abuse of girls -- The woman I could be -- Fools -- Loneliness -- Abused mothers, wounded fathers -- Hunger -- The Catholic Church -- Deadly legacy -- Keeping Secrets -- Forgiveness -- When I first came to know myself -- When my sister & I dance -- The girl who could catch fish with her hands -- Two brothers -- La Guerra -- Keepers in the dark -- Inheritance -- For the child who knew -- Never ever tell -- Ottawa -- The truth about colonization -- Justice -- Beric -- Christmas inside of me -- Spring fever -- Megcenetkwe -- Dying -- Afterwords. Narrative acts of truth and reconciliation: teaching the healing plays of Vera Manuel / by Michelle Coupal -- Embedded teachings: Vera Manuel's recovered short stories / Deanna Reder -- "Through poetry a community is brought together": Vera Manuel's poetry, poetry activism, and poetics / Joanne Arnott -- Appendix. Indians and residential school: a study of the breakdown of a culture / Vera Manuel
Notes
The "l " in Vera Manuel's (Kulilu Pal ki's) name on the title page appears as the International Phonetic Alphabet symbol for palatoalveolar click.
ISBN
9780887558368
Accession Number
2023.09
Call Number
07.2 M31h
Collection
Archives Library
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In good relation : history, gender, and kinship in indigenous feminisms

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Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
2020
Publisher
Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada : University of Manitoba Press
Call Number
07.2 N53i
Responsibility
Edited by Sarah Nickel and Amanda Fehr
Publisher
Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada : University of Manitoba Press
Published Date
2020
Physical Description
260 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Indigenous
Indigenous Culture
Indigenous Peoples
Indigenous Traditions
Women
Feminism
Gender
Sexuality
Abstract
Over the past thirty years, a strong canon of Indigenous feminist literature has addressed how Indigenous women are uniquely and dually affected by colonialism and patriarchy. Indigenous women have long recognized that their intersectional realities were not represented in mainstream feminism, which was principally white, middle-class, and often ignored realities of colonialism. As Indigenous feminist ideals grew, Indigenous women became increasingly multi-vocal, with multiple and oppositional understandings of what constituted Indigenous feminism and whether or not it was a useful concept. Emerging from these dialogues are conversations from a new generation of scholars, activists, artists, and storytellers who accept the usefulness of Indigenous feminism and seek to broaden the concept. In Good Relation captures this transition and makes sense of Indigenous feminist voices that are not necessarily represented in existing scholarship. There is a need to further Indigenize our understandings of feminism and to take the scholarship beyond a focus on motherhood, life history, or legal status (in Canada) to consider the connections between Indigenous feminisms, Indigenous philosophies, the environment, kinship, violence, and Indigenous Queer Studies. Organized around the notion of "generations," this collection brings into conversation new voices of Indigenous feminist theory, knowledge, and experience. Taking a broad and critical interpretation of Indigenous feminism, it depicts how an emerging generation of artists, activists, and scholars are envisioning and invigorating the strength and power of Indigenous women. -- Provided by publisher
Contents
Introduction / Sarah Nickel -- Broadening indigenous feminisms. The uninvited / by Jana-Rae Yerxa -- Us / by Elaine McArthur -- Making matriarchs at Coqualeetza : Sto´:lo¯ women's politics and histories across generations / by Madeline Rose Knickerbocker -- Sa´mi feminist moments : decolonization and Indigenous feminism / by Astri Dankertsen -- "It just piles on, and piles on, and piles on" : young Indigenous women and the colonial imagination / by Tasha Hubbard with Joi T. Arcand, Zoey Roy, Darian Lonechild, and Marie Sanderson -- "Making an honest effort" : Indian homemakers' clubs and complex settler engagements / by Sarah Nickel -- Queer and two-spirit identities, and sexuality. Reclaiming traditional gender roles : a two-spirit critique / by Kai Pyle -- Reading Chrystos for feminisms that honour two-spirit erotics / by Aubrey Jean Hanson -- Naawenangweyaabeg Coming in : intersections of Indigenous sexuality and spirituality / by Chantal Fiola -- Morning star, and moon share the sky : (re)membering two-spirit identity through culture-centred HIV prevention curriculum for Indigenous youth / by Ramona Beltra´n, Antonia R.G. Alvarez, and Miriam M. Puga -- Multi-generational feminisms and kinship. Honouring our great-grandmothers : an ode to Caroline LaFramboise, twentieth-century Me´tis matriach / by Zoe Todd -- on anishinaabe parental kinship with black girl life : twenty-first century ([de]colonial) turtle island / by waaseyaa'sin christine sy with aja sy -- Toward an Indigenous relational aesthetics : making Native love, still / by Lindsay Nixon -- Conversations on Indigenous feminism / by Omeasoo Wa¯hpa¯siw and Louise Halfe -- These are my daughters / by Anina Major.
ISBN
9780887558511
Accession Number
P2023.09
Call Number
07.2 N53i
Collection
Archives Library
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The indians of Canada : their manners and customs

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Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
1970
Author
McLean, John
Publisher
Toronto : Coles Publishing Company
Call Number
07.2 M22 1970
Author
McLean, John
Publisher
Toronto : Coles Publishing Company
Published Date
1970
Physical Description
351pages : ill., port
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Indigenous Peoples
Indigenous Culture
Indigenous Traditions
Colonialism
Accession Number
2022.17
Call Number
07.2 M22 1970
Collection
Archives Library
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Indigenous media arts in Canada : making, caring, sharing

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Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
2023
Publisher
Waterloo, Ontario : Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Call Number
07.2 C54m
Responsibility
Edited by Dana Claxton and Ezra Winton
Publisher
Waterloo, Ontario : Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Published Date
2023
Physical Description
437 pages
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Indigenous Art
Indigenous
Indigenous Artists
Indigenous Culture
Indigenous Peoples
Media
Abstract
A timely and crucial collection of essays and conversations focused on Indigenous-settler cultural politics and the ethics of Indigenous representation in Canada’s media arts that explores issues of narrative sovereignty, cultural identity, cultural resistance and decolonizing creative practices. -- Provided by publisher.
ISBN
9781771125413
Accession Number
P2023.15
Call Number
07.2 C54m
Collection
Archives Library
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Mythology of the North American indian and Inuit nations

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Published Date
2003
Author
Molyneaux, Brian L.
Publisher
London : Southwater Publishing
Call Number
07.2 m73m
Author
Molyneaux, Brian L.
Publisher
London : Southwater Publishing
Published Date
2003
Physical Description
96 pages
Subjects
Indigenous Peoples
Indigenous Culture
North America
Abstract
An authoritative and accessible guide to the vivid and enthralling myths and legends of the United States and Canada -- From the publisher
Contents
A-to-Z Myths and Legends of North America ; Transformation ; The Living Sky ; Landscapes of Memory ; Spirits of Earth ; The Dark Side ; The Trickster ; Death & Afterlife ; The Strangers ; New Gods ; New Mythologies
Accession Number
2022.17
Call Number
07.2 m73m
Collection
Archives Library
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Native American almanac : more than 50,000 years of the cultures and histories of indigenous peoples

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Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
2016
Author
Wakim Dennis, Yvonne; Hirschfelder, Arlene; and Rothenberger Flynn, Shannon
Publisher
Canton, MI : Visible Ink Press
Call Number
07.2 D42n
Author
Wakim Dennis, Yvonne; Hirschfelder, Arlene; and Rothenberger Flynn, Shannon
Publisher
Canton, MI : Visible Ink Press
Published Date
2016
Physical Description
xi, 643 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Indigenous Peoples
History
Indigenous Culture
Turtle Island
Abstract
The impact of early encounters, past policies, treaties, wars, and prejudices toward America's Indigenous peoples is a legacy that continues to mark America. The history of the United States and Native Americans are intertwined. Agriculture, place names, and language have all been influenced by Native American culture. The stories and history of pre- and post-colonial Tribal Nations and peoples continue to resonate and informs the geographical boundaries, laws, language and modern life. From ancient rock drawings to today's urban living, the Native American Almanac: More Than 50,000 Years of the Cultures and Histories of Indigenous Peoples traces the rich heritage of indigenous people. It is a fascinating mix of biography, pre-contact and post-contact history, current events, Tribal Nations' histories, enlightening insights on environmental and land issues, arts, treaties, languages, education, movements, and more. Ten regional chapters, including urban living, cover the narrative history, the communities, land, environment, important figures, and backgrounds of each area's Tribal Nations and peoples. The stories of 345 Tribal Nations, biographies of 400 influential figures in all walks of life, Native American firsts, awards, and statistics are covered. Over 300 photographs and illustrations bring the text to life. The most complete and affordable single-volume reference work about Native American culture available today, the Native American Almanac is a unique and valuable resource devoted to illustrating, demystifying, and celebrating the moving, sometimes difficult, and often lost history of the indigenous people of America. Capturing the stories and voices of the American Indian of yesterday and today, it provides a range of information on Native American history, society, and culture. -- Publisher's description
Contents
Historical overview of Indian-White relations in the United States -- Northeast -- Southeast -- Midwest -- Northern plains -- Southern plains: Texas and Oklahoma -- The Great Basin and Rocky Mountains -- Southwest -- Pacific Northwest: Washington State and Oregon -- California -- Alaska -- Hawaii -- Urban -- Appendix A: Canada -- -- Appendix B: Mexico -- Appendix C: Caribbean -- Appendix D: Greenland -- Appendix E: Indigenous nations/groups in Native America Almanac -- Appendix F: Indian lands: definitions and explanations -- Appendix G: Indigenized English -- Appendix H: Indigeneity from sea to sea -- Appendix I: Selected indigeneity firsts: people, places, and things -- Appendix J: Native owned and operated museums -- Appendix K: The indigeneity of the Powwow -- Appendix L: Indigenous ancestry affiliation of some notable people.
ISBN
9781578595075
Accession Number
2022.17
Call Number
07.2 D42n
Collection
Archives Library
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