Year: 2024, 2024
Member of: Trent University Graduate Thesis Collection
Name(s): Creator (cre): Maracle, Gabriel Karenhoton, Thesis advisor (ths): Newhouse, David R., Degree committee member (dgc): Shpuniarsky, Heather, Degree committee member (dgc): Dockstator, Mark, Degree committee member (dgc): Sinclair, Raven, Degree granting institution (dgg): Trent University Abstract: <p>Indigenous men are disproportionally incarcerated in the Canadian criminal justice system. A disproportionate number of Indigenous men who are incarcerated have also been through the foster care and adoption system. A good deal of them are disconnected from their cultures, traditions and communities. For many the prisons are the first times that they encounter Indigenous Knowledge (IK),… more Full Text: Supporting the Good Mind and the Healing Journey: An Inquiry into Indigenous Healing Service Delivery A thesis submitted to the Committee of Graduate Studies in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the Faculty …
Year: 2023, 2023
Member of: Trent University Graduate Thesis Collection
Name(s): Creator (cre): Sacco, Michael David, Thesis advisor (ths): McCaskill, Don, Thesis advisor (ths): Esteva, Gustavo, Degree committee member (dgc): Zohar, Asaf, Degree committee member (dgc): Dockstator, Mark, Degree committee member (dgc): Penados, Filiberto, Degree granting institution (dgg): Trent University Abstract: <p>This intercultural rediscovery of Indigenous cacao culture draws upon Environmental Studies, Intercultural Studies, Indigenous Studies, Anthropology and Agroecology. The methodological antecedent for this kind of symbolic food study of cacao is the work done by Gustavo Esteva and others on the civilizational importance of maize. Similarly, the rediscovery of the Indigenous Knowledge of… more Full Text: REDISCOVERING THE ECOLOGY AND INDIGENOUS KNOWLEDGE OF CACAO FOREST GARDENS AND CHOCOLATE A dissertation submitted to the Committee of Graduate Studies in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Degree of Doctorate of Philosophy in the Faculty of …
Year: 2021, 2021
Member of: Trent University Graduate Thesis Collection
Name(s): Creator (cre): Campos Navarrete, Marisol, Thesis advisor (ths): Zohar, Asaf, Thesis advisor (ths): Newhouse, David, Degree committee member (dgc): Magallanes Blanco, Claudia, Degree committee member (dgc): Furgal, Christopher, Degree committee member (dgc): Ibarra Mateos, Marcela, Degree committee member (dgc): Dockstator, Mark, Degree granting institution (dgg): Trent University Abstract: <p>This thesis shows and emphasizes the importance of Indigenous Knowledge (IK) in informing collaborative efforts that promote sustainable economic development in Indigenous communities. It tells the story of a participative research study undertaken with six Tseltal communities located in the Region Selva of Chiapas, Mexico, in the context of the Covid19 pandemic of 2020 and early 2021.… more Full Text: EXPERIENCING BUHTS’AN QU’INAL FROM SHACHEL JWOHC’ A’TEL THROUGH SNA'EL YA'BEYEL STUC TE BIN AY MA'YUC: FOSTERING LOCAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT IN TSELTAL TERMS A Dissertation Submitted to the Committee on Graduate Studies in Partial Fulfillment of the …
Year: 2018, 2018
Member of: Trent University Graduate Thesis Collection
Abstract: <p>Indigenous peoples and organizations have a long history of incorporating cultural knowledge and teachings into program and organizational design and structure. The approach to incorporating cultures into Indigenous organizations is not uniform, nor is the ways that they are understood. This dissertation focuses on Nogojiwanong Friendship Centre, in Peterborough Ontario and their… more Full Text: CODE OF BIMADIZIWIN: THE INTERPRETATION OF GOVERNANCE AND SERVICE DELIVERY AT NOGOJIWANONG FRIENDSHIP CENTRE, 2010-2014 A Thesis Submitted to the Committee on Graduate Studies in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of …
Year: 2016, 2016
Member of: Trent University Graduate Thesis Collection
Abstract: <p>The residential school legacy is one of the darkest chapters in Canadian history. From the mid-1850s to 1996, thousands of Aboriginal children were taken from their homelands and placed in residential schools. Taken against their will, many dreaded attending these schools. Some attended for as long as ten to fifteen years, only to be strangers in their own communities upon their return.… more Full Text: RE-LIVING THE RESIDENTIAL SCHOOL EXPERIENCE: AN ANISHINABE KWE’S EXAMINATION OF THE COMPENSATION PROCESSES FOR RESIDENTIAL SCHOOL SURVIVORS A DISSERTATION SUBMITTED TO THE COMMITTEE ON GRADUATE STUDIES IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE …
Year: 2015, 2015
Member of: Trent University Graduate Thesis Collection
Abstract: <p>Since the end of the Second World War, artists of Native descent have engaged with the Fine Art world where their work has come to be placed in the category of Native art. As a result of my journey, I have come to realize that in the Fine Art world the term Native art tends to be associated with the practices of our ancestors in times past obscuring our contemporary nature. In the… more Full Text: Native Art as seen through Native Eyes: An examination of contemporary Native art From a Storytelling Perspective A dissertation submitted to the Committee of Graduate Studies in partial Fulfillment of the requirements for the Degree of Doctorate of …
Year: 2014, 2014
Member of: Trent University Graduate Thesis Collection
Name(s): Creator (cre): Robbins, Julian A., Thesis advisor (ths): Newhouse, David, Degree committee member (dgc): Dockstator, Mark, Degree committee member (dgc): Thrasher, Michael, Degree committee member (dgc): Andersson, Neil, Degree committee member (dgc): Brascoupe, Simon, Degree committee member (dgc): White, Jerry, Degree committee member (dgc): Zohar, Asaf, Degree granting institution (dgg): Trent University Abstract: <p>Abstract</p><p>Maintaining Balance in Times of Change: An Investigation into the Contemporary Self-Regulatory Dynamics that Operate in and around First Nations Traditional Healing Systems</p><p>The evolution of health regulation processes in Canada has focused on the development of standards of practice premised upon the principle of `do no harm' and the… more Full Text: Maintaining Balance in Times of Change: An Investigation into the Contemporary SelfRegulatory Dynamics which Operate in and around First Nations Traditional Healing Systems A Dissertation Submitted to the Committee on Graduate Studies in Partial …
