Year: 2020, 2020
Member of: Trent University Graduate Thesis Collection
Abstract: <p>This research explores key themes emerging from the question of the meaning Anishinaabe individuals attach to utilizing traditional practices and ceremonies to address their own trauma. The contributors share their stories, which are deeply rooted in relationships. The methodology of this research is also rooted within an Indigenous paradigm; storytelling is a core feature of… more Full Text: RECONNECTING THE HEART AND SPIRIT: MAKING MEANING OF TRADITIONAL HEALING EXPERIENCES WITH ANISHINAABE INDIVIDUALS IN RESOLVING TRAUMA A Dissertation Submitted to the Committee on Graduate Studies in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree …
Year: 2019, 2019
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Abstract: <p>Indigenous peoples' sur-thrivance in global, settler colonial, historical, and nation-specific economic contexts is a broadly studied subject that fails to emphasize Indigenous economic sovereignty. Indigenous knowledges regarding the land-based relationalities which formulate an aspect of Indigenous economic sovereignty is lacking. So too is knowledge on Indigenous womxn's… more Full Text: FOLLOWING ININAAHTIGOOG HOME: ANISHINAABEG WOMXN ISKIGAMIZIGANING A Thesis Submitted to the Committee on Graduate Studies in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the Faculty of Arts and Science TRENT UNIVERSITY …
Year: 2018, 2018
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Abstract: <p>The natural world and environmental issues present critical points of convergence</p><p>between Indigenous and non-Indigenous people and their knowledge systems. This</p><p>qualitative study engaged with 18 Indigenous and non-Indigenous environmental</p><p>practitioners in interview conversations to explore their experiences in cross-cultural</p… more Full Text: BRINGING KNOWLEDGES TOGETHER: INDIGENOUS ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES IN ACTION A Dissertation Submitted to the Committee on Graduate Studies in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Doctor of Philosophy in the Faculty of Arts and Science TRENT …
Year: 2018, 2018
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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: 2017, 2017
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Abstract: <p>In our communities, we are continually challenged to reflect on effective responses to the people and events that put us at risk. This study is an examination of two distinctly different world-view responses: the colonial, dominant culture and the Indigenous world-view. The retributive understanding of the dominant culture applies assumptions about the nature of the world that are vested… more Full Text: ELDERS AND INDIGENOUS HEALING IN THE CORRECTIONAL SERVICE OF CANADA: A STORY OF RELATIONAL DISSONANCE, SACRED DOUGHNUTS, AND DRIVE-THRU EXPECTATIONS A Dissertation Submitted to the Committee on Graduate Studies in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements …
Year: 2016, 2016
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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: 2016, 2016
Member of: Trent University Graduate Thesis Collection
Name(s): Creator (cre): Evering, Brigitte, Thesis advisor (ths): Furgal, Chris, Degree committee member (dgc): Kuhn, Lesley, Degree committee member (dgc): Longboat, Dan, Degree committee member (dgc): Kimmerer, Robin, Degree granting institution (dgg): Trent University Abstract: <p>The purpose of this study was to explore the educational implications of a clearer understanding of the practice of using multiple, including Indigenous, knowledges when finding solutions to place-based environmental issues. The impetus for my research came from a growing sense of urgency to address environmental issues within both Indigenous and non-Indigenous communities. Some have… more Full Text: KNOW*LEDGE CONSTELLATIONS AND RE*CONSTELLATING: NARRATIVES TO INFORM INDIGENOUS-AND-ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION A Thesis Submitted to the Committee on Graduate Studies in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the …
Year: 2016, 2016
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Abstract: <p>The Tamalko (Coast Miwok) North Central California Indigenous people have lived in their homelands since their beginnings. California Indigenous people have suffered violent and uncompromising colonial assaults since European contact began in the 16th century. However, many contemporary Indigenous Californians are thriving today as they reclaim their Native American sovereign rights,… more Full Text: HIYA ‘AA MA PICHAS ‘OPE MA HAMMAKO HE MA PAP’OYYISKO (LET US UNDERSTAND AGAIN OUR GRANDMOTHERS AND OUR GRANDFATHERS): MAP OF THE ELDERS: CULTIVATING INDIGENOUS NORTH CENTRAL CALIFORNIA CONSCIOUSNESS A Thesis Submitted to the Committee on Graduate Studies …
Year: 2015, 2015
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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 …
