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Ã2006., University of Toronto Press Call No: IND 362.1 W167a Edition: 2nd edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Numerous studies, inquiries, and statistics accumulated over the years have demonstrated the poor health status of Aboriginal peoples relative to the Canadian population in general. Aboriginal Health in Canada is about the complex web of physiological, psychological, spiritual, historical, sociological, cultural, economic, and environmental factors that contribute to health and disease patterns among the Aboriginal peoples of Canada.The authors explore the evidence for changes in patterns of health and disease prior to and since European contact, up to the present. They discuss medical systems and the place of medicine within various Aboriginal cultures and trace the relationship between politics and the organization of health services for Aboriginal people. They also examine popular explanations for Aboriginal health patterns today, and emphasize the need to understand both the historical-cultural context of health issues, as well as the circumstances that give rise to variation in health problems and healing strategies in Aboriginal communities across the country. An overview of Aboriginal peoples in Canada provides a very general background for the non-specialist. Finally, contemporary Aboriginal healing traditions, the issue of self-determination and health care, and current trends in Aboriginal health issues are examined.
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-- Native literature.1998., Oxford University Press Call No: 810.8 A628a Edition: 2nd ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library
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2008., Penguin Canada Call No: 971.2 B592w Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Extraordinary Canadians
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c2015., General, HarperCollins Publishers Ltd Call No: IND Fic Lin Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Bernice Meetoos, a Cree woman, leaves her home in Northern Alberta following tragedy and travels to Gibsons, BC. She is on something of a vision quest, seeking to understand the messages from The Frugal Gourmet (one of the only television shows available on CBC North) that come to her in her dreams. She is also driven by the desire to meet Pat Johns, who played Jesse on The Beachcombers.
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2021., House of Anansi Press Click to access digital title. Summary Note: Drawing upon his Cree and Scandinavian roots, Harold R. Johnson merges myth, fantasy, and history in this epic saga of exploration and adventure. While sorting through the possessions of his recently deceased neighbour, Harold Johnson discovers an old, handwritten manuscript containing epic stories composed in an obscure Swedish dialect. Together, they form The Björkan Sagas. The first saga tells of three Björkans, led by Juha the storyteller, who set out from their valley to discover what lies beyond its borders. Their quest brings them into contact with the devious story-trader Anthony de Marchand, a group of gun-toting aliens in search of Heaven, and an ethereal Medicine Woman named Lilly. In the second saga, Juha is called upon to protect his people from invaders bent on stealing the secrets contained within the valley's sacred trees. The third saga chronicles the journey of Lilly as she travels across the universe to bring aid to Juha and the Björkans, who face their deadliest enemy yet. The Björkan Sagas is a bold, innovative fusion of narrative traditions set in an enchanted world of heroic storytellers, shrieking Valkyries, and fire-breathing dragons.
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2012., Wilfrid Laurier University Press Call No: 610.92 S551b Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Bridging Two Peoples tells the story of Dr. Peter E. Jones, who in 1866 became one of the first status Indians to obtain a medical doctor degree from a Canadian university. He returned to his southern Ontario reserve and was elected chief and band doctor. As secretary to the Grand Indian Council of Ontario he became a bridge between peoples, conveying the chiefsœ concerns to his political mentor Prime Minister Sir John A. Macdonald, most importantly during consultations on the Indian Act. (From publisher)
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2006., Greystone Books ; Distributed in the U.S. by Publishers Group West Call No: 799.2 M586m Edition: 1st English language ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library
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2012., Boréal Call No: FR 306.097 B753c Edition: ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Collection Papiers collésSummary Note: Avec sa manière inimitable, sur le ton de la confidence, Serge Bouchard jette un regard sensible et nostalgique sur le chemin parcouru. Son enfance, son métier dœanthropologue, sa fascination pour les cultures autochtones, pour celle des truckers, son amour de lœécriture.
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2017., General, University of Regina Press Call No: IND 305.8 G311c Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "Denied her Indigenous status, Lynn Gehl has been fighting her entire life to reclaim mino-pimadiziwin - the good life. Exploring Anishinaabeg philosophy and Anishinaabeg conceptions of truth, Gehl shows how she came to locate her spirit and decolonize her identity, thereby becoming, in her words, "fully human." Gehl also provides a harsh critique of Canada and takes on important anti-colonial battles, including sex discrimination in the Indian Act and the destruction of sacred places. Lynn Gehl is an Algonquin Anishinaabe-kwe from the Ottawa River Valley. She studied chemical technology in college. Her undergraduate studies were in psychology and cultural anthropology. She is the author of The Truth that Wampum Tells: my debwewin on the Algonquin land claims process"--Provided by publisher.
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By Haldane, Sen2013., Adult, Stone Flower Press Call No: MYS Fic Hal Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: In Victoria, 1869, a mutilated body is discovered in the forest: Dr McCrory, an American alienist whose methods include phrenology, Mesmerism, and sexual-mystical magnetation. Chad Hobbes, newly arrived from England, is the policeman who must solve the crime. Could the murderer be a Tsimshian medicine man, Wiladzap, who is immediately arrested? But everyone who has known McCrory respectable or not has something to hide.
