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Healing Histories

Stories from Canada's Indian Hospitals

By: Laurie Meijer Drees

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Healing Histories

Stories from Canada's Indian Hospitals

By: Laurie Meijer Drees

A social history of tubercular hospitals and Canada’s indigenous population, built around “poignant and at times heartbreaking” firsthand accounts (Choice). Featuring oral accounts from patients, families, and workers who experienced Canada’s Indian Hospital system, Healing Histories presents a fresh perspective on health care history that includes the diverse voices and insights of the many people affected by tuberculosis and its treatment in the mid-twentieth century. This intercultural history models new methodologies and ethics for researching and writing about indigenous Canada based on indigenous understandings of “story” and its critical role in Aboriginal historicity, while moving beyond routine colonial interpretations of victimization, oppression, and cultural destruction. Written for both academic and popular reading audiences, Healing Histories, the first detailed collection of Aboriginal perspectives on the history of tuberculosis in Canada’s indigenous communities and on the federal government’s Indian Health Services, is essential reading for those interested in Canadian Aboriginal history, the history of medicine and nursing, and oral history.

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University of Alberta

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0888646925

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9780888646927

Walking in Indian Moccasins

The Native Policies of Tommy Douglas and the CCF

By: Laurie Barron

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Walking in Indian Moccasins

The Native Policies of Tommy Douglas and the CCF

By: Laurie Barron

Walking in Indian Moccasins is the first work to offer a different view of the Tommy Douglas provincial government in Sakatchewan: their policies, their applications, and their shortcomings. Much more than that, however, it is a careful account of the development of Indian and Metis people in Saskatchewan in the post-war period. The goal of the CCF was to 'walk in Indian moccasins,' promising a degree of empathy with Native society in bringing about reforms. In reality, this aim was not always honoured in practice and essentially meant integration for the Indians of the province and total assimilation for the Metis.

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UBC Press

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0774841923

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9780774841924

Healing Histories

Stories from Canada's Indian Hospitals

By: Laurie Meijer Drees

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Stories from Canada's Indian Hospitals

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First collected oral histories on tuberculosis in Canada’s indigenous communities and the Indian Hospital System.

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University of Alberta

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088864650X

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9780888646507

The Indian Association of Alberta

A History of Political Action

By: Laurie Meijer Drees

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The Indian Association of Alberta

A History of Political Action

By: Laurie Meijer Drees

The history of indigenous political action in Canada is long, hard-fought, and under-told. By the mid-1900s, Native peoples across western Canada were actively involved in their own political unions in a drive to be heard outside their own, often isolated, reserve communities. In Alberta, the Indian Association of Alberta (IAA) represented the interests of Alberta's reserve communities. Perhaps best known for its role in spearheading the protest against the 1969 White Paper produced by the Department of Indian Affairs, the IAA, founded in 1939, allowed Native peoples access to politics at the provincial level. Its rich history reveals much about First Nations' perspectives on the place of Indian peoples in Canada before the emergence of civil rights movements and large-scale federal funding of Native organizations. This book, which outlines the significance of treaty rights discussions before their constitutional entrenchment and documents the political philosophies of First Nations leaders in the prairie provinces, will be welcomed by those with an interest in Native studies, political science, and Canadian history.

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0774808772

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