[rec.] The Re-empowerment of Native Canadians through Literature: A Comparison between Lee Maracle’s Goodbye, Snauq and Tomson Highway’s Hearts and Flowers. [In:] Our Story: Aboriginal Voices on Canada’s Past

The Native game of lacrosse has undergone a considerable amount of change since it was appropriated from Aboriginal peoples beginning in the 1840s. Through this reformulation, non-Native Canadians attempted to establish a national identity through the sport and barred Aboriginal athletes from championship competitions. And yet, lacrosse remained a significant element of Aboriginal culture, spirituality, and the Native originators continued to play the game beyond the non-Native championship classifications. Despite their absence from championship play the Aboriginal roots of lacrosse were zealously celebrated as a form of North American antiquity by non-Aboriginals and through this persistence Natives developed their own identity as players of the sport. Ousted from international competition for more than a century, this article examines the formation of the Iroquois Nationals (lacrosse team representing the Haudenosaunee Confederacy in international competition) between 1983-1990 and their struggle to re-enter international competition as a sovereign nation. It will demonstrate how the Iroquois Nationals were a symbolic element of a larger resurgence of Haudenosaunee “traditionalism” and how the team was a catalyst for unmasking intercommunity conflicts between that traditionalism—engrained within the Haudenosaunee’s “traditional” Longhouse religion, culture, and gender constructions— and new political adaptations.

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Burn injuries in native Canadians: a 10-year experience

Burns ◽

10.1016/0305-4179(89)90062-4 ◽

1989 ◽

Vol 15 (1) ◽

pp. 15-19 ◽

Cited By ~ 6

Author(s):

P.R. Callegari ◽

J.D.M. Alton ◽

H.A. Shankowsky ◽

M.G.A. Grace

Keyword(s):

Burn Injuries ◽

Native Canadians

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Native Canadians, First Nations, or Aboriginals: The effect of labels on attitudes toward native peoples.

Canadian Journal of Behavioural Science/Revue canadienne des sciences du comportement ◽

10.1037/0008-400x.28.2.86 ◽

1996 ◽

Vol 28 (2) ◽

pp. 86-91 ◽

Cited By ~ 13

Author(s):

Darrell W. Donakowski ◽

Victoria M. Esses

Keyword(s):

First Nations ◽

Native Peoples ◽

Native Canadians

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Access to Maternal Health Care for Native Canadians on Reserves in Northern Canada

Revue interdisciplinaire des sciences de la santé - Interdisciplinary Journal of Health Sciences ◽

10.18192/riss-ijhs.v3i1.1449 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 3 (1) ◽

pp. 21-25

Author(s):

David M Beking

Keyword(s):

Health Care ◽

Maternal Health ◽

Antenatal Care ◽

Mortality Rates ◽

Maternal Health Care ◽

Cultural Norms ◽

Native Canadians ◽

Native Canadian ◽

Canadian Population ◽

New Models

The history of abuse and isolation of Native Canadian populations has created a gap in maternal health care, resulting in infant mortality rates (IMRs) of 12 per 1000 births for on-reserve populations compared to 5.8 per 1000 births for the general Canadian population. This discrepancy is deemed a population health issue, as Native Canadian people constitute roughly 3% of the Canadian population, but have infant mortality rates similar to other third world countries. Currently, there are multiple government and non-government organizations in charge of providing maternal health care for on-reserve populations. A lack of a unified communication system linking these organizations creates a gap in the delivery of services and compromises the prenatal care in Native Canadians. The current method of caring for high risk pregnancies on Northern Canadian reserves is to fly the mothers out of their home community to a hospital that is both far away from their families and completely foreign to them. This practice contrasts with the cultural norms of the Native Canadian population, where expecting women receive antenatal care from elder women within their community. New models of care, in which midwives are the primary providers of antenatal care within a given community, have recently been implemented in Northern Quebec and other isolated areas of Canada. The midwives work with women elders of the community to provide a full system of maternal care. These new models show great promise in improving our current system of maternal health care for Native Canadians by providing more efficient and accessible antenatal care while also incorporating cultural norms of the communities.

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The Mobilisation of Native Canadians During the Second World War

Journal of the Canadian Historical Association ◽

10.7202/031108ar ◽

2006 ◽

Vol 7 (1) ◽

pp. 205-226 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Michael D. Stevenson

Keyword(s):

Human Resource ◽

Second World War ◽

Geographic Isolation ◽

World War ◽

Native Canadians ◽

Native Canadian ◽

Scant Attention ◽

Resource Mobilisation ◽

Second World

Abstract Historians have paid scant attention to the compulsory conscription of men under the National Resources Mobilisation Act (NRMA) in Canada during the Second World War. This paper uses the mobilisation of Native Canadians as a case-study to determine the depth and extent of human resource mobilisation policies between 1940 and 1945. Government mobilisation departments and agencies relied on a remarkably decentralised and permissive administrative structure to carry out the NRMA mobilisation mandate. These organizational traits were exacerbated by active Native Canadian opposition to conscription and other factors, such as the geographic isolation and poor health of many Native men. As a result, a patchwork of disparate, inconsistent and ineffectual mobilisation policies affecting Canadian Indians was adopted during the course of the war.

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