Aboriginal Canada Revisited

CONTENTS

Contents x PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 2 INTRODUCTION: ABORIGINAL CANADA REVISITED by Kerstin Knopf HEALTH, SOCIAL ISSUES, POLITICS 30 DE-COLONIZING CANADIAN ABORIGINAL HEALTH AND SOCIAL SERVICES FROM THE INSIDE OUT: A CASE STUDY-THE AHOUSAHT HOLISTIC SOCIETY by Marlene R. Atleo 50 THE COMMISSION ON THE FUTURE OF HEALTH CARE IN CANADA: A CASE STUDY OF ABORIGINAL HEALTH by Falko Brede 72 THE NISGA'A COMMON BOWL IN TRADITION AND POLITICS byMansell Griffin andAntino Spanjer EDUCATION 88 METIS SCHOLARSHIP IN THE 21ST CENTURY: LIFE ON THE PERIPHERY by Tricia Logan 100 RESPONDING TO THE NEEDS OF POST-SECONDARY ABORIGINAL EDUCATION: THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE INDIGENOUS LEADERSHIP AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM by Barbara Walberg IMAGINING AND IMAGING THE "INDIAN" 122 THE IMAGINARY INDIAN IN GERMAN CHILDREN'S NON-FICTION LITERATURE by Genevieve Susemihl 158 THE ART OF EXCLUSION: THE STATUS OF ABORIGINAL ART IN THE MCMICHAEL CANADIAN ART COLLECTION by SiobhánN. Smith LITERATURE 198 "DECOLONIZING THE MIND": DREW HAYDEN TAYLOR'S PLAY WITH THE SEMANTICS OF IRONY IN ONLY DRUNKS AND CHILDREN TELL THE TRUTH by Nancy Grimm 220 HUMOROUS RESTORIFICATIONS: REWRITING HISTORY WITH HEALING LAUGHTER by Eva Gruber 246 MODERNIZING THE "INDIAN": LITERARY CONSTRUCTIONS OF THE NATIVE IN SELECTED NOVELS BY THOMAS KING by Thomas Rüdell 270 REFLECTIONS OF ORAL TRADITIONS IN CONTEMPORARY NATIVE WRITING: RUBY SLIPPERJACK'SHONOUR THE SUN by Katarzyna Juchnowicz PRINT MEDIA AND FILM 290 ABORIGINAL CHILD WELFARE: SYMBOLIC BATTLEGROUND IN THE NEWS MEDIA by Robert Harding 330 'THE ELDERS HAVE SAID' - PROJECTING ABORIGINAL CULTURAL VALUES INTO CONTEMPORARY NEWS DISCOURSE by Steffi Retzlaff 360 "STOLEN SISTERS": DISCRIMINATION AND VIOLENCE AGAINST ABORIGINAL WOMEN AS REPRESENTED IN CANADIAN FILMS by Kerstin Knopf 396 LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS 402 INDEX ...