Aboriginal People and Other Canadians: Shaping New RelationshipsAboriginal People and Other Canadians discusses a wide variety of issues in Native studies including social exclusion, marginalization and identity; justice, equality and gender; self-help and empowerment in Aboriginal communities and in the cities; and, methodological and historiographical representations of social relationships. The contributors attempt to gauge whether the last decade of the twentieth century was a time of constructive transition and whether new patterns of relations are emerging after the recent challenges to the colonial legacy by Aboriginal people. Published in English. |
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Chapter 3 The Historiography of Christian Missions to Canadas First Peoples since 1970 | 25 |
Chapter 4 Aboriginal People in the City | 93 |
Health and Healing | 131 |
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Aboriginal People and Other Canadians: Shaping New Relationships Martin Thornton,Roy Todd Limited preview - 2001 |
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Page 8 - Nor is it usually human-centred in the same way as the western scientific tradition, for it does not assume that human beings are anything more than one — and not necessarily the most important — element of the natural order of the universe. Moreover, the Aboriginal historical tradition is an oral one, involving legends, stories and accounts handed down through the generations in oral form. It is less focused on establishing objective truth and assumes that the teller of the story is so much...