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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"Aboriginals"”.
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Stolen past: Shattered futures, aboriginal justice in Canada
… have been made to alleviate the tensions Aboriginals find within the system. However, the situation today is essentially the same. Aboriginals are still overrepresented within the system and solutions that have been brought forward have had little success in stemming their flow into the …
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MOVING HOUSE: URBAN ABORIGINAL HOUSING IN CANADA
… than Non-Aboriginal people. Overall, Status Aboriginals were the most vulnerable to housing insecurity, followed by Non Status Aboriginals, Métis, and then with Non-Aboriginal people being the least vulnerable to housing insecurity. These findings are important as they show that certain …
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Ties undone : a gendered and racial analysis of the impact of the 1885 Northwest Rebellion in the Saskatchewan district
… emerges that reveals that Euro-Canadians and Aboriginals were linked to each other in many, and often subtle ways before the uprising. Drawing on personal papers, government and Hudson's Bay Company records, and oral histories, this study shows that race and gender were determining factors in …
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Social Status, Opportunity And Repeat Victimization: The Unequal Distribution Of Safety
… the highest rates of victimization followed by Aboriginals and neither social status nor opportunity predicted their victimization.</p>
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Cannibalism in contact narratives and the evolution of the wendigo
… and how the assumption dictates the treatment of aboriginals by colonizing Europeans. Texts discussed in this light include <em>The Tempest</em>, <em>She</em>, <em>Robinson Crusoe</em> and the journals of Christopher Columbus. Additionally, I address the effects of colonization on the indigenous …
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The Taino Are Still Alive, Taino Cuan Yahabo: An Example Of The Social Construction Of Race And Ethnicity
… to recognize the descendants of these Caribbean aboriginals as an identifiable group, their identities are contested and sometimes ridiculed. Even though Taíno heritage is accepted as an essential root of Puerto Rico's cultural and biological make-up, this group has been classified as …
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"Variations of the rainbow" : mysticism, history and aboriginal Australia in Patrick White
… cannot apprehend the symbolic life of the Aboriginals: she can only observe the material aspects of the culture. Symbolic acts are thus interpreted in their material manifestation. The depiction of Aboriginal life is less romanticised than that given in Voss, as White examines the very real …
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Characteristics of tuberculosis in Aboriginal populations : is there a difference in rates by residence (on or off reserve)?
… reserve. 1337 cases were diagnosed in Registered Aboriginals, with the remaining 413 in the non-registered population. The mean age of Aboriginal cases on reserve was 12.92 and 19.98 for off reserve cases. Females were more likely to have tuberculosis on reserve, while males were more likely off …
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"One Tricky Coyote": The fiction of Thomas King
… treatment of Western myths and stereotypes of Aboriginals, and the Aboriginal responses to them; the fictional non-Aboriginal responses and attitudes towards Aboriginal beliefs and customs; the significance of the land to First Nations' cultures: and the politics of land claims. By locating …
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Reading hidden messages through deciphered manual alphabets on classic artwork
… of ancient Egyptians, Cretans and Australian Aboriginals, to name a few, as astronomers, was underestimated. Some deciphered Indus seals attested to a global understanding of the universe, with Gemini and the star of Thuban at the center of their attention. Certain forms of secrecy had to be …
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Aboriginal Students Perceptions Of The Effect Of Vocational Education And Training On Post School Experiences
… experiences. The study involves post secondary Aboriginals who participated in secondary vocational education and training programs at Wongutha CAPS for a period of six months or longer at some time within the past nine years. The study utilises a phenomenological methodology with data …
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A stirring of cultures: The contest for place, belonging and identity in Australia
… of contemporary Australia: the homeless, the Aboriginals and the non-Anglo Australians. The exegesis, titled ‘A stirring of cultures: the contest for place, belonging and identity in Australia,’ explains through the experiences of migrants, Aboriginal Australians and the homeless the problems …
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A regional study of American genre painting from 1830-1880
… on the plight of America's persecuted aboriginals. George Catlin, the founder of the first Wild West Show, explored and sketched unknown tribes in the Upper Missouri-Mississippi and Southwest regions of our country. Hidden Indian encampments, forced migrations and theatric fur trade …
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In Each Other’s Arms: France and the St. Lawrence Mission Villages in War and Peace, 1630-1730
Beginning in the late 1630s, a diversity of Algonquian and Iroquoian peoples established under the auspices of Jesuit and, later, Sulpician missionaries a string of village communities in the St. Lawrence Valley. A diversity of peoples, whom the French lumped under the rubrics of “Algonquins”, …