Severing the ties that bind : government repression of indigenous religious ceremonies on the prairies /

Religious ceremonies were an inseparable part of Aboriginal traditional life, reinforcing social, economic and political values. However, missionaries and government officials with ethnocentric attitudes of cultural superiority decreed that Native dances and ceremonies were immoral or un-Christian a...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Pettipas, Katherine (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Winnipeg, Manitoba : University of Manitoba Press, [1994]
Colección:Manitoba studies in native history ; 7.
Temas:
Cree Indians > Rites and ceremonies.
Cree Indians > Government relations.
Indians of North America > Prairie Provinces > Rites and ceremonies.
Indians of North America > Canada > Government relations.
First Nations > Government relations.
Cris (Premières Nations) > Rites et cérémonies.
Cris (Premières Nations) > Relations avec l'État.
Premières Nations > Provinces des Prairies > Rites et cérémonies.
Premières Nations > Relations avec l'État.
HISTORY > Canada > General.
Cree Indians > Government relations
Cree Indians > Rites and ceremonies
Indians of North America > Government relations
Indians of North America > Rites and ceremonies
Zeremonie
Indiens d'Amérique > États-Unis.
Cree (Indiens) > Relations avec l'État.
Cree (Indiens) > Rites et cérémonies.
Geschichte 1800-1951.
Canada
Prairie Provinces
Cree.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Foreword / A. Blair Stonechild
  • Piapot's Story
  • 1. Imperial Policy and Local "Customs"
  • 2. The Ties that Bind: The Plains Cree
  • 3. From Independence to Wardship: 1870 to 1895
  • 4. The Indian Act and Indigenous Ceremonies: 1884 to 1895
  • 5. Regulating Sun Dances and Giveaways: 1896 to 1914
  • 6. Responses to Religious Suppression: 1896 to 1914
  • 7. Other Forms of "Objectionable Customs": 1914 to 1940
  • 8. Persistence, Reason, and Compromise: 1914 to 1940
  • 9. A Matter of Religious Freedom: 1940 to 1951.

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