Title: Aboriginal Canada revisited /
Authors: Knopf, Kerstin.
Publisher: University of Ottawa Press,
Year: 2008
Subjects: Native peoples Canada; Native peoples in literature; Indigenous peoples in mass media; Autochtones Canada.; Autochtones dans la littérature.; Autochtones dans les médias.; Indians of North America Canada.; Indians in literature; Indians in mass media
Abstract: "Aboriginal Canada Revisited examines the current political and cultural position of Canada's Aboriginal peoples in a series of interdisciplinary essays. The contributors to this volume explore Aboriginal politics and representation, health, education and other social issues, and look at how contemporary Aboriginals find voice in literature, art, print media and film. While acknowledging the vibrancy and diversity of Aboriginal cultural expression and the developing dialogue between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal people this book also draws attention to areas where the colonial legacy is still taking its toll and to the systemic problems that continue to marginalize Aboriginal people within Canadian society."--BOOK JACKET.
Contents: Introduction : aboriginal Canada revisited / Kerstin Knopf -- Health, social issues, politics -- De-colonizing Canadian aboriginal health and social services from the inside out : a case study--the Ahousaht Holistic Society / Marlene Atleo -- The Commission on the Future of Health Care in Canada : a case study of aboriginal health / Falko Brede -- The Nisga'a common bowl in tradition and politics / Mansell Griffin and Antino Spanjer -- Education -- Métis scholarship in the 21st century : life on the periphery / Tricia Logan -- Responding to the needs of post-secondary aboriginal education : the development of the Indigenous Leadership and Community Development Program / Barbara Walberg -- Imagining and imagining the "Indian" -- The imaginary Indian in German children's non-fiction literature / Geneviève Susemihl -- The art of exclusion : the status of aboriginal art in the McMichael Canadian Art Collection / Siobhán N. Smith -- Literature -- "Decolonizing the mind" : Drew Hayden Taylor's play with the semantics of irony in Only drunks and children can tell the truth / Nancy Grimm -- Humorous restorifications : rewriting history with healing laughter / Eva Gruber -- Modernizing the "Indian" : literary constructions of the Native in selected novels by Thomas King / Thomas Rüdell -- Reflections of oral traditions in contemporary Native writing : Ruby Slipperjack's Honour the sun / Katarzyna Juchnowicz -- Print media and film -- Aboriginal child welfare : symbolic battleground in the news media / Robert Harding -- 'The elders have said' : projecting aboriginal cultural values into contemporary news discourse / Steffi Retzlaff -- "Stolen sisters" : discrimination and violence against aboriginal women as respresented in Canadian films / Kerstin Knopf -- List of contributors.