Canada constitutes a multicultural society whose `multiculturality' reflects different layers of meaning. Four semantic levels can be discerned, including multiculturalism as demographic fact, as ideology, as governme...
Brightening the Covenant Chain: Aboriginal Treaty Meanings in Law and History after Marshall deliberation and consultation, the giving of wampum strings or belts and the exchange ofpresents.22 The meaning of diplomatic metaphors was embedded deep within aboriginal cultureand custom, and communica I at...
Flanagan extrapolates on the word ‘nation’ in history and discusses its semantics in politics. There are conceptual distinctions between definitions of ‘nations’ and the word must be interpreted in its context for meaning. The term ‘nation’ in Quebec has been reworded to mean ‘distinct so...
Culture and the Judiciary: The Meaning of the Culture Concept as a Source of Aboriginal Rights in Canada. Niezen, Ronald 2003a Culture and the Judiciary: The Meaning of the Culture Concept as a Source of Aboriginal Rights in Canada. Canadian Journal of Law ... Ronald,Niezen - 《Canadian ...
The health of Aboriginal peoples in Canada has been compared to that of people in third world countries. Shkagamik-Kwe Health Centre, an Aboriginal-based primary health centre, was recently established to address the unique needs of the Aboriginal population in one area of an urban community in...
The last program in this category, the Whanaungatanga model of care is a simple concept but with profound Traditional meaning and value. The model, adopted by the Tauranga Hospital located in the Western Bay of Plenty, is based on ancestral, historic, spiritual, traditional connections and relat...
A ten year plan to end homelessness was established in Calgary, a major city in Canada. When representatives of service agencies were asked if they had special programs for Aboriginal people, they questioned why this would be necessary. To answer this, data collected from members of the city'...
The Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics (UCAS) script has a rich history rooted in the Indigenous communities of Canada. The development of UCAS can be traced back to the mid-19th century when James Evans, a Methodist missionary, worked closely with Indigenous communities to create a writing sys...
plums coming ripe, one woman walks over to look more closely. As she reaches out to touch the dark fruit, she feels a fluttering kick as the child in her womb moves. She stops, intent. This is the first time she has felt her baby, the first time this new one has made himself ...
In the 1960s, this meaning was fostered,in part, through a reassessment of Canada's history in preparation for the centennial.This event drew attention to the historical relationship between Canada andaboriginal peoples through public criticism of the government by public interestgroups, Indian ...