Year: 2024, 2024
Member of: Trent University Graduate Thesis Collection
Name(s): Creator (cre): Mountain, Antoine Bear Rock, Thesis advisor (ths): McCaskill, Don, Degree committee member (dgc): Begay Jr., Manley, Degree committee member (dgc): Devine, Bonnie, Degree committee member (dgc): Jackson, Lucy, Degree granting institution (dgg): Trent University Abstract: <p>My research into Et'sehch'i, the Traditional Dene Burial Practices, is a comprehensive study into how smaller groups, clans, of our northern Dene understood and handled matters of funerals. The research focuses on the Dene community of Radelie Koe, Fort Good Hope in the Northwest Territories of Canada, my home community. In these Pre-Contact times, there weren't any of the… more Full Text: Et’sehch’i; The Traditional Dene Burial Practices A Knowledge Basket Pathway B Written Component submitted to the Committee of Graduate Studies Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy In the Faculty of Arts and …
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: 2022, 2022
Member of: Trent University Graduate Thesis Collection
Name(s): Creator (cre): Spice, Kevin Gerard, Thesis advisor (ths): McCaskill, Don, Degree committee member (dgc): Fontaine, Jerry, Degree committee member (dgc): Zohar, Asaf, Degree committee member (dgc): Shukla, Shailesh, Degree committee member (dgc): Newhouse, David, Degree granting institution (dgg): Trent University Abstract: <p>In the 1980's, Hollow Water First Nation citizens created a healing movement to address community issues from an Indigenous perspective resulting in the development of the Community Holistic Circle Healing (CHCH) in 1989. The CHCH organization developed a Community (Restorative) Justice process as an alternative to a Western-based Justice approach to address issues such as domestic… more Full Text: KEEPING CIRCLE: THE RISE, MAINTENANCE, DECLINE, AND RE-ENVISIONING OF HOLLOW WATER FIRST NATION HEALING MOVEMENT PROCESS AND RESTORATIVE JUSTICE A Thesis Submitted to the Committee on Graduate Studies in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the …
Year: 2019, 2019
Member of: Trent University Graduate Thesis Collection
Abstract: <p>In Disturbing Invisibility (Coloma, McElhinny, Tungohan, Catungal, Davidson, 2012), the most comprehensive book on Filipino-Canadian studies to date, issues were identified in the afterword as to how Filipino-Canadian studies relates to indigenous identity. This thesis attempts to address this issue by applying Enriquez's (1992) Indigenization Method onto Filipino-Canadian discourse… more Full Text: i AN APPLICATION OF VIRGILIO ENRIQUEZ’S INDIGENIZATION METHOD ON FILIPINOCANADIAN DISCOURSE A Thesis Submitted to the Committee on Graduate Studies in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts in the Faculty of Arts and …
Year: 2013, 2013
Member of: Trent University Graduate Thesis Collection
Abstract: <p>Assimilative policies limit and disrupt the inclusion of Aboriginal values in most Aboriginal services today. This art-based, qualitative research study approaches that issue, and using symbolism and story a sample scenario was created to demonstrate the impact of assimilative policy on Aboriginal service delivery in a storyboard format. The storyboard was then presented to four… more Full Text: SINĂĂKSSIN (writing/picture) Aboriginal Solutions to Cultural Conflict in Housing A Dissertation submitted to the Committee on Graduate Studies in Partial Fulfillment of the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the Faculty of Arts and Science Trent …
Year: 2013, 2013
Member of: Trent University Graduate Thesis Collection
Abstract: <p>ni' o-nah-ko-nah ah-di-so-kah-nahg zhigo di-bah-ji-mo-wi-nan g'dah mi-kwe-ni-mah-nahn obwandiacbun (nigig), tecumthabun (mizhibizhi), miinwaa shingwaukbun (ah-ji-jawk) </p><p>(I ceremonially call upon the stories, the sacred and spiritual narratives and stories of personal experience... In the spirit of obwandiac, tecumtha and shingwauk) </p><p>gi-mi-ni-… more Full Text: gi-mi-ni-go-wi-ni-nan o-gi-ma-wi-win zhigo o-gi-ma-win (The gifts of traditional leadership and governance) A Dissertation Submitted to the Committee of Graduate Studies in partial Fulfillment of the Requirement for the Degree of Doctorate of Philosophy …
