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Author:   Nancy Van Styvendale ,  J.D. McDougall ,  Robert Henry ,  Robert Alexander Innes
Publisher:   University of Manitoba Press
Imprint:   University of Manitoba Press
Weight:   0.333kg
ISBN:  

9780887559396

ISBN 10:   0887559395
Pages:   240
Publication Date:   30 December 2021
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Chapter 1: What This Pouch Holds Chapter 2: Baskets, Birchbark Scrolls, and Maps of Land: Indigenous Making Practices as Oral Historiography Chapter 3: For Kaydence and her Cousins: Health and Happiness in Cultural Legacies and Contemporary Contexts Chapter 4: Stories and Staying Power: Art-Making as (Re)Source of Cultural Resilience and Well-Being for Panniqtumiut Chapter 5: Healthy Connections: Facilitators’ Perceptions of Programming Linking Arts and Wellness with Indigenous Youth Chapter 6: Narrating Relations: Genetic Ancestry Testing and Alternarratives of Queer Kinship Chapter 7: The Doubleness of Sound in Canada’s Indian Residential Schools Chapter 8 Kissed by Lightning: Mediating Haudenosaunee Traditional Teachings through Film Chapter 9: Minobimaadiziwinke (Creating a Good Life): Native Bodies Healing Chapter 10: Body Counts: War, Pesticides and Queer Spirituality in Cherríe Moraga’s Heroes and Saints Chapter 11: “The Song of the Starved Soul” Chapter 12 Sakihiwawin: Land’s Overflow into the space-tial “Otherwise”

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""The unique content of The Art of Indigenous Health and Well-Being may be useful for communities to heal, and to preserve cultural and traditional knowledge that can be passed down in the written form. The content can spark dialogue and learning by being discussed and used by families, generations, health providers/healers and a wide array of learners."" --Margot Latimer ""There is a genuinely beautiful life-force at work in this text: it's artful and creative, readable and forceful. The objectives and scholarship throughout The Arts of Indigenous Health and Well-Being are clear, grounded, rigorous and likely to make important contributions to knowledge and conversations about Indigenous health and the humanities in times and space of contemporary coloniality."" --Sarah de Leeuw

The unique content of The Art of Indigenous Health and Well-Being may be useful for communities to heal, and to preserve cultural and traditional knowledge that can be passed down in the written form. The content can spark dialogue and learning by being discussed and used by families, generations, health providers/healers and a wide array of learners. --Margot Latimer There is a genuinely beautiful life-force at work in this text: it's artful and creative, readable and forceful. The objectives and scholarship throughout The Arts of Indigenous Health and Well-Being are clear, grounded, rigorous and likely to make important contributions to knowledge and conversations about Indigenous health and the humanities in times and space of contemporary coloniality. --Sarah de Leeuw

Author Information

Nancy Van Styvendale is a white settler scholar and is an Associate Professor and Associate Dean (Research) in the Faculty of Native Studies at the University of Alberta. JD McDougall is a Métis PhD candidate from Prince Albert, SK. Her current work explores Métis family stories through community history, archival research, and zine practice, using kinship models as a framework for understanding, re-politicizing, and reclaiming these narratives. Robert Henry is Métis from Prince Albert, Saskatchewan and is an Assistant Professor at the University of Saskatchewan in the Department of Indigenous Studies.  Robert Alexander Innes is a Plains Cree member of Cowessess First Nation. He holds a PhD in American Indian Studies from the University of Arizona and is an Assistant Professor in the department of Native Studies at the University of Saskatchewan.

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