Aboriginal Canada Revisited

Kerstin Knopf

• Publisher: University of Ottawa Press
• Year: 2008
• eBook ISBN: 9780776618227
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: North American Literary Criticism
• Index: Social Sciences

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.

INDEX

Aboriginal Child Welfare Study, 290–310

coding information, 314–319, 319–328

findings, 290–291, 294–297

media coverage, 290, 294–301, 303

methodology, 291–294

public opinion and, 304–307

and self-determination, 290, 303–304, 307–309

stereotyping, 301–303

Aboriginal Curator Residency Program, 162

Aboriginal discourse See discourse, Aboriginal

Aboriginal Engineering Ltd., 10

Aboriginal Health Funds, 56

Aboriginal Health Human Resources Initiative, 63

Aboriginal Health Partnerships AHPS), 56–66

Aboriginal Health Transition Fund, 63

Aboriginal Justice Inquiry of Manitoba, 367

Aboriginal Peoples Television Network (APTN), 15, 361, 383

Aboriginal Voices, 15

Aboriginal Voices Radio, 15

abuse, 6, 33, 34, 364

See also alcohol abuse

“Acadia,” 251

accountability, 55, 58

Acoose, Janice, 14, 365

An Act for the Gradual Enfranchisement of Indians, 363

action processes, 345–346

activism, 4, 31

Adair, John, 372

address markers, 332–335

AFN. See Assembly of First Nations

agency, Aboriginal, 303–304, 344–346

agent of change, 51, 67, 107–108

Ahousaht Band Council, 37, 41

Ahousaht First Nation, 36–38

Ahousaht First Nations Fisheries, 37

Ahousaht Geographic Identification System (GIS), 38

Ahousaht Holistic Centre, 41–44

Ahousaht Holistic Society, 30–46

Ahousaht First Nation, 36–38

colonization, 18, 30–34, 45

and continuing community care, 44–46

incorporation and operation of, 39–44

strategy for, 34–36

transfer of health-care services, 11–12

AHS See Ahousaht Holistic Society

AIDS, 6, 52

Air Creebec, 10

Air Inuit, 10

Alberni Residential School, 35

Alberta Indian Health Commission, 12

alcohol abuse

health and, 5, 6, 34, 42, 52, 55

in Honour the Sun, 279, 283

in ODCTT, 212, 265

and stereotypes, 132,...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Contents
• Preface and Acknowledgements
• Introduction: Aboriginal Canada Revisited by Kerstin Knopf
• Health; Social Issues, Politics
• Education
• Imagining and Imaging the “Indian”
• Literature
• Print Media and Film
• List of Contributors
• Index