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Colonizing Bodies

Aboriginal Health and Healing in British Columbia, 1900-50

By: Mary-Ellen Kelm

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Colonizing Bodies

Aboriginal Health and Healing in British Columbia, 1900-50

By: Mary-Ellen Kelm

Using postmodern and postcolonial conceptions of the body and the power relations of colonization, Kelm shows how a pluralistic medical system evolved among Canada's most populous Aboriginal population. She explores the effect which Canada's Indian policy has had on Aboriginal bodies and considers how humanitarianism and colonial medicine were used to pathologize Aboriginal bodies and institute a regime of doctors, hospitals, and field matrons, all working to encourage assimilation. In this detailed but highly readable ethnohistory, Kelm reveals how Aboriginal people were able to resist and alter these forces in order to preserve their own cultural understanding of their bodies, disease, and medicine.

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274

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UBC Press

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ISBN 10

0774841761

ISBN 13

9780774841764

Talking Back to the Indian Act

Critical Readings in Settler Colonial Histories

By: Mary-Ellen Kelm,Keith D Smith

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Talking Back to the Indian Act

Critical Readings in Settler Colonial Histories

By: Mary-Ellen Kelm,Keith D Smith

Talking Back to the Indian Act is a comprehensive "how-to" guide for engaging with primary source documents. The intent of the book is to encourage readers to develop the skills necessary to converse with primary sources in more refined and profound ways. As a piece of legislation that is central to Canada’s relationship with Indigenous peoples and communities, and one that has undergone many amendments, the Indian Act is uniquely positioned to act as a vehicle for this kind of focused reading. Through an analysis of thirty-five sources pertaining to the Indian Act—addressing governance, gender, enfranchisement, and land—the authors provide readers with a much better understanding of this pivotal piece of legislation, as well as insight into the dynamics involved in its creation and maintenance.

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University of Toronto Press

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1487587376

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9781487587376