Until Our Hearts Are On The Ground

Author : Jeannette Corbiere Lavell,Dawn Memee Lavell-Harvard
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Social Science
ISBN : WISC:89092593227

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"Until Our Hearts are on the Ground" by Jeannette Corbiere Lavell,Dawn Memee Lavell-Harvard Pdf

In this revolutionary volume, as part of their overall effort to advocate for the rights of Aboriginal women, D. Memee LavellHarvard and Jeannette Corbiere Lavell have brought together a multitude of voices to speak on the issues facing Aborigi- nal mothers in contemporary society. Beginning with an ex- amination of the experience of childbirth-the initiation into motherhood-the contributing authors illustrate its potential as a source of empowerment and revitalization for our nations. Through their own unique perspectives, the women bring us to an understanding of the variety of Aboriginal mothering prac- tices, the impacts of colonization and government legislation on Aboriginal mothers, and literary representations of Aborigi- nal mothering. Together, these women have worked to reveal not only the connection between the longstanding historical oppression experienced by Aboriginal women and the dire contemporary circumstances of many Aboriginal communities, but also the power of Aboriginal mothers to revitalize and transform our communities. They are truly the givers of new life.

Author : NA NA
Publisher : Springer
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2016-04-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781137076465

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Our Hearts Fell to the Ground by NA NA Pdf

This unique anthology chronicles the Plains Indians' struggle to maintain their traditional way of life in the changing world of the nineteenth century. Its rich variety of 34 primary sources - including narratives, myths, speeches, and transcribed oral histories - gives students the rare opportunity to view the transformation of the West from Native American perspective. Calloway's comprehensive introduction offers crucial information on western expansion, territorial struggles among Indian tribes, the slaughter of the buffalo, and forced assimilation through the reservation system. More than 30 pieces of Plains Indian art are included, along with maps, headnotes, questions for consideration, a bibliography, a chronology, and an index.

Author : Lynn O'Brien Hallstein,Andrea O'Reilly,Melinda Vandenbeld Giles
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 671 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2019-11-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351684194

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The Routledge Companion to Motherhood by Lynn O'Brien Hallstein,Andrea O'Reilly,Melinda Vandenbeld Giles Pdf

Interdisciplinary and intersectional in emphasis, the Routledge Companion to Motherhood brings together essays on current intellectual themes, issues, and debates, while also creating a foundation for future scholarship and study as the field of Motherhood Studies continues to develop globally. This Routledge Companion is the first extensive collection on the wide-ranging topics, themes, issues, and debates that ground the intellectual work being done on motherhood. Global in scope and including a range of disciplinary perspectives, including anthropology, literature, communication studies, sociology, women’s and gender studies, history, and economics, this volume introduces the foundational topics and ideas in motherhood, delineates the diversity and complexity of mothering, and also stimulates dialogue among scholars and students approaching from divergent backgrounds and intellectual perspectives. This will become a foundational text for academics in Women's and Gender Studies and interdisciplinary researchers interested in this important, complex and rapidly growing topic. Scholars of psychology, sociology or public policy, and activists in both university and workplace settings interested in motherhood and mothering will find it an invaluable guide.

Author : Margaret Robertson,Po Keung Eric Tsang
Publisher : Springer
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2016-06-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789811002168

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Everyday Knowledge, Education and Sustainable Futures by Margaret Robertson,Po Keung Eric Tsang Pdf

Everyday knowledge offers opportunities for better understanding of significant issues of our times. Reflecting these themes this book places emphasis on community wisdom. The underpinning argument is that our instinctive urge for survival may not be enough if we do not share our collective knowledge and learn more about the everyday habits, beliefs and actions of communities spread across the region. Contributions from researchers active within local communities help build knowledge capacity and support for collaborative research.

Author : Mona Gleason,Tamara Myers,Leslie Paris,Veronica Strong-Boag
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2010-07-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780774859011

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Lost Kids by Mona Gleason,Tamara Myers,Leslie Paris,Veronica Strong-Boag Pdf

Children and youth occupy important social and political roles, even as they sleep in cribs or hang out on street corners. Conceptualized as either harbingers or saboteurs of a bright, secure tomorrow, they have motivated many adult-driven schemes to effect a positive future. But have all children benefited from these programs and initiatives? Lost Kids examines adults' misgivings about, and the inadequate care of, vulnerable children. From explorations of interracial adoption and the treatment of children with disabilities to discussions of the cultural construction of the hopeless child, this multifaceted collection rejects the essentialism of the "priceless child" or "lost youth" � simplistic categories that continue to shape the treatment of those who deviate from the so-called norm.

Author : Esyllt W. Jones,James Hanley,Delia Gavrus
Publisher : Univ. of Manitoba Press
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2022-05-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9780887552847

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Medicare's Histories by Esyllt W. Jones,James Hanley,Delia Gavrus Pdf

Medicare is arguably Canada’s most valued social program. As federally-supported medicare enters its second half-century, Medicare’s Histories brings together leading social and health historians to reflect on the origins and evolution of medicare and the missed opportunities characterizing its past and present. Embedding medicare in the diverse constituencies that have given it existence and meaning, contributors inquire into the strengths and weaknesses of publicly insured health care and critically examine medicare’s unfinished role in achieving greater health equity for all people in Canada regardless of race, status, gender, class, age, and ability. Fundamental to the stories told in Medicare’s Histories is the essential role played by communities ¬– of activists, critics, health professionals, First Nations, patients, families, and survivors – in driving demands for health reform, in identifying particular omissions and inequities exacerbated or even created by medicare, and in responding to the realities of medicare for those who work in and rely on it. Contributors to this volume show how medicare has been shaped by politics (in the broadest sense of that word), identities, professional organizations, and social movements in Canada and abroad. As COVID lays bare social inequities and the inadequacies of health care delivery and public health, this book shows what was excluded and what was – and is – possible in health care.

Author : Veronica Strong-Boag
Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2011-09-28
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9781554587988

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Fostering Nation? by Veronica Strong-Boag Pdf

Fostering Nation? Canada Confronts Its History of Childhood Disadvantage explores the missteps and the promise of a century and more of child protection efforts by Canadians and their governments. It is the first volume to offer a comprehensive history of what life has meant for North America’s most disadvantaged Aboriginal and newcomer girls and boys. Gender, class, race, and (dis)ability are always important factors that bear on youngsters’ access to resources. State fostering initiatives occur as part of a broad continuum of arrangements, from social assistance for original families to kin care and institutions. Birth and foster parents of disadvantaged youngsters are rarely in full control. Children most distant from the mainstream ideals of their day suffer, and that suffering is likely to continue into their own experience of parenthood. That trajectory is never inevitable, however. Both resilience and resistance have shaped Canadians’ engagement with foster children in a society dominated by capitalist, colonial, and patriarchal power. Fostering Nation? breaks much new ground for those interested in social welfare, history, and the family. It offers the first comprehensive perspective on Canada’s provision for marginalized youngsters from the nineteenth to the twenty-first century. Its examination of kin care, institutions, state policies, birth parents, foster parents, and foster youngsters provides ample reminder that children’s welfare cannot be divorced from that of their parents and communities, and reinforces what it means when women bear disproportionate responsibility for caregiving.

Author : Fiona MacDonald,Alexandra Dobrowolsky
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 427 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2020-05-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781487588342

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Turbulent Times, Transformational Possibilities? by Fiona MacDonald,Alexandra Dobrowolsky Pdf

In Canada and elsewhere, recent political, economic, and social shifts have brought gender to the forefront of politics as never before, from gender-based analyses and “feminist budgets” to the #MeToo, Idle No More, and Black Lives Matter movements. Detailing these gendered and turbulent political times, this book features state-of-the art scholarship from diverse contributors that encompasses both contemporary challenges as well as avenues for change now and into the future. This collection represents a complex treatment of both gender and politics, in which gender is examined in light of other collective identities and their intersections and politics refers to both institutional and movement and countermovement politics.

Author : Sébastien Grammond
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2009-03-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780773576292

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Identity Captured by Law by Sébastien Grammond Pdf

In Identity Captured by Law, Sébastien Grammond explains how minority rights make identity legally relevant, providing a detailed account of struggles that have been fought concerning Indian status and admission to minority-language schools. Setting his analysis of the law in the wider interdisciplinary context of anthropology and political theory, Grammond assesses whether a group's membership rules are an accurate reflection of their ethnicity and are based on sound justifications of minority rights. He argues that membership rules do not violate equality rights if there is sufficient correspondence between the legal criteria that determine membership and the group's own cultural or relational conceptions of their ethnic identity. Comprehensive, interdisciplinary, and original in its comparison of indigenous peoples and linguistic minorities, Identity Captured by Law is an invaluable resource for legal and political scholars and students, as well as anyone interested in the controversies surrounding the legal recognition of identity.

Author : Karen L. F. Houle
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2013-12-24
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780739136737

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Responsibility, Complexity, and Abortion by Karen L. F. Houle Pdf

Responsibility, Complexity, and Abortion: Toward a New Image of Ethical Thought draws from feminist theory, post-structuralist theory, and complexity theory to develop a new set of ethical concepts for broaching the thinking challenges that attend the experience of unwanted pregnancy. Author Karen Houle does not only argue for these concepts; she enacts a method for working with them, a method that brackets the tendency to take positions and to think that position-taking is what ethical analysis involves. This book thus provides concrete evidence of a theoretically-grounded, compassionate way that people in all walks of life, academic or otherwise, could come to a better understanding of, and more complex relationship to, difficult ethical issues. On the one hand, this is a meta-ethical book about how people can conceive and communicate moral ideas in ways that are more constructive than position-taking; on the other hand, it is also a book about abortion. It testifies from a first-person female perspective about the life-long complexity that attends fertility, sexuality and reproduction. But it does not do so in order to ratify abortion as a woman’s issue or a private matter or as feminist work. Rather, its aim is to excavate the ethical richness of the situation of unwanted pregnancy showing that it connects to everyone, affects everyone, and thus gives everyone something unique and new to think.

Author : Deanna Tidwell Broughton
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 463 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2019-06-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780806163192

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Hide, Wood, and Willow by Deanna Tidwell Broughton Pdf

For centuries indigenous communities of North America have used carriers to keep their babies safe. Among the Indians of the Great Plains, rigid cradles are both practical and symbolic, and many of these cradleboards—combining basketry and beadwork—represent some of the finest examples of North American Indian craftsmanship and decorative art. This lavishly illustrated volume is the first full-length reference book to describe baby carriers of the Lakota, Cheyenne, Arapaho, and many other Great Plains cultures. Author Deanna Tidwell Broughton, a member of the Oklahoma Cherokee Nation and a sculptor of miniature cradles, draws from a wealth of primary sources—including oral histories and interviews with Native artists—to explore the forms, functions, and symbolism of Great Plains cradleboards. As Broughton explains, the cradle was vital to a Native infant’s first months of life, providing warmth, security, and portability, as well as a platform for viewing and interacting with the outside world for the first time. Cradles and cradleboards were not only practical but also symbolic of infancy, and each tribe incorporated special colors, materials, and ornaments into their designs to imbue their baby carriers with sacred meaning. Hide, Wood, and Willow reveals the wide variety of cradles used by thirty-two Plains tribes, including communities often ignored or overlooked, such as the Wichita, Lipan Apache, Tonkawa, and Plains Métis. Each chapter offers information about the tribe’s background, preferred types of cradles, birth customs, and methods for distinguishing the sex of the baby through cradle ornamentation. Despite decades of political and social upheaval among Plains tribes, the significance of the cradle endures. Today, a baby can still be found wrapped up and wide-eyed, supported by a baby board. With its blend of stunning full-color images and detailed information, this book is a fitting tribute to an important and ongoing tradition among indigenous cultures.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 564 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1890
Category : New Thought
ISBN : STANFORD:36105027569164

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The True Life by Anonim Pdf

Author : Michigan. Adjutant-General's Department
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1304 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1882
Category : Michigan
ISBN : HARVARD:32044014176614

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Michigan in the War by Michigan. Adjutant-General's Department Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 524 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1886
Category : Baptists
ISBN : WISC:89096037221

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Baptist Missionary Magazine by Anonim Pdf

Volumes 7-77, 80-83 include 13th-83rd, 86th-89th annual report of the American Baptist missionary union.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1288 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1885
Category : Baptists
ISBN : UOM:39015073764642

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American Baptist Missionary Magazine and Missionary Intelligencer by Anonim Pdf

Volumes 7-77, 80-83 include 13th-83rd, 86th-89th annual report of the American Baptist missionary union.