Year: 2015, 2015
Member of: Trent University Graduate Thesis Collection
Abstract: <p>Environmental factors play a critical role in the health and well-being of people worldwide and the distribution of the burden of disease associated with environmental causes is disproportionately high in marginalized populations, including First Nations. In this way, environmental health problems are as much social and political problems as environmental and must be addressed as such.… more Full Text: ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH MANAGEMENT PRACTICES IN INDIGENOUS COMMUNITIES: A CASE STUDY WITH MISSISSAUGA FIRST NATION A Thesis Submitted to the Committee on Graduate Studies in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy in …
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: 2015, 2015
Member of: Trent University Graduate Thesis Collection
Abstract: <p>This dissertation offers the dibaajimowin (personal story) of my beading project, which I undertook to understand the enactment of Anishinaabe women's knowledge in graduate research. Framed through the concept of a collective self, which is embedded within the Anishinaabe traditions of storytelling and beading, and drawing further from the aesthetics, processes, and teachings of… more Full Text: MSHKIKENH IKWE NIIN (I AM TURTLE WOMAN): THE TRANSFORMATIVE ROLE OF ANISHINAABE WOMEN’S KNOWLEDGE IN GRADUATE RESEARCH A Dissertation Submitted to the Committee on Graduate Studies in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor 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 …
Year: 2014, 2014
Member of: Trent University Graduate Thesis Collection
Name(s): Creator (cre): Sojourn, Willis Judson, Thesis advisor (ths): McLeod, Neal, Degree committee member (dgc): Lacombe, Michelle, Degree committee member (dgc): Longboat, Dan, Degree committee member (dgc): Cariou, Warren, Degree committee member (dgc): McKegney, Sam, Degree committee member (dgc): Sherman, Paula, Degree granting institution (dgg): Trent University Abstract: <p>maskihkîyâtayôhkêwina- </p><p>mashkikiiwaadizookewin: </p><p>Cree and Anishnaabe Narrative Medicine </p><p>in the Renewal </p><p>of Ancestral Literature</p><p>Jud Sojourn</p><p>This work represents an experiment in developing Cree and Anishnaabe nation-specific approaches to understanding Cree and Anishnaabe texts.… more Full Text: MASKIHKÎYÂTAYÔHKÊWINA -‐ MASHKIKIIWAADIZOOKEWIN: CREE AND ANISHNAABE NARRATIVE MEDICINE IN THE RENEWAL OF ANCESTRAL LITERATURE A dissertation submitted to the Committee of Graduate Studies …
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 …
Year: 2013, 2013
Member of: Trent University Graduate Thesis Collection
Name(s): Creator (cre): Turmel, Theresa, Thesis advisor (ths): Davis, Lynn, Degree committee member (dgc): Williams, Shirley I, Degree committee member (dgc): Sherman, Paula, Degree committee member (dgc): Jones, Susie, Degree granting institution (dgg): Trent University Abstract: <p>ABSTRACT</p><p>Gaagnig Pane Chiyaayong: Forever, We Will Remain </p><p>Reflections and Memories:</p><p> `Resiliency' Concerning the Walpole Island Residential School Survivors Group</p><p> Theresa Turmel</p><p>From 1830 to 1996, Canada pursued a policy of removing Indigenous children from their families and educating them… more Full Text: Reflections and Memories: ‘Resiliency’ Concerning the Walpole Island Residential School Survivors Group A Dissertation submitted to the Committee on Graduate Studies in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the …
