Aboriginal People and Other Canadians : Shaping New Relationships / / edited by Martin Thornton and Roy Todd ; D.N. Collins ... [et al.]

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910155524503321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Ottawa : , : University of Ottawa Press, , [2001]; Baltimore, Md. : , : Project MUSE, , 2012; ©2001
• ISBN: 0-7766-1532-7
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (222 pages)
• Collana: International Canadian studies series = La collection internationale d'etudes canadiennes ; ; 5
• Disciplina: 305.897/071
• Soggetti: Autochtones - Canada - Identite ethnique; Autochtones - Canada - Conditions sociales; Indigenous peoples - Canada - Ethnic identity; Indigenous peoples - Canada - Social conditions; Indians of North America - Canada - Ethnic identity; Indians of North America - Canada - Social conditions; Canada Relations raciales; Canada Race relations
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Introduction / Roy Todd -- Aspects of the history of aboriginal people and their relationships with colonial, national and provincial governments in Canada / Martin Thornton -- Historiography of Christian missions to Canada's first peoples since 1970 / David N. Collins -- Aboriginal people in the city / Roy Todd -- Aboriginal peoples: health and healing / Geoffrey Mercer -- Canadian aboriginal justice circles: alternatives or compromise in the politics of criminal justice / David S. Wall -- Icons, flagships and identities: aboriginal tourism in British Columbia / Heather Norris Nicholson
• Sommario/riassunto: Aboriginal 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.