Volume 2, April 1999: Applying Circles in Aboriginal Social Work Practice
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Item "The Nitinaht Chronicles"(School of Native Human Services, 1999-04) Webster, Schuyler; Douglas, Lucilla; Goddard, MollyThe Nitinaht Chronicles contains strong language, including graphic sexual detail. Please preview before showing. This video is accompanied by a comprehensive user's guide. (National Film Board of Canada, 1998).Item "Long term evaluation of the health transfer initiative: Major findings"(School of Native Human Services, 1999-04) van de Sande, Adje; Browning, RickThis article summarizes the major findings of the Long Term Evaluation of the Health Transfer Initiative, the initiative of the Medical Services Branch of Health Canada to transfer control of health services and budgets to First Nations Communities. The study was conducted by the Institute for Human Resource Development for Medical Services Branch.Item "Location and knowledge-building: Exploring the fit of western social work with traditional knowledge"(School of Native Human Services, 1999-04) Zapf, Michael KimIn many regions of Canada, particularly the North, human services grounded in a Western social work model exist alongside Indigenous healing practices rooted in local traditional knowledge. For a long time, traditional knowledge was the only working knowledge base for survival in harsh northern climates. The relatively recent imposition of a Western scientific knowledge base has resulted in efforts to integrate or incorporate aspects of local traditional knowledge. Based on direct experience with this process within my own discipline of social work, I have attempted to explore issues of compatibility of the two knowledge systems with particular attention to the impact of place or spatial location.Item "The learning circle as a research method: The trickster and windigo in research"(School of Native Human Services, 1999-04) Nabigon, Herbert; Hagey, Rebecca; Webster, Schuyler; MacKay, RobertThis study reports on how funded research - carried out by a recognized elder in selected communities on Manitoulin Island - affects the community experiences and perceptions of the emotional issues surrounding diabetes. In his research, this elder was able to assert and Aboriginal approach of achieving human subjects' review approval.Item "Seeking Minopimatasiwin (the Good Life): An Aboriginal approach to social work practice"(School of Native Human Services, 1999-04) Hart, Michael AnthonyAboriginal peoples have been utilizing their own approaches to helping one another for centuries. Many Aboriginal social workers have incorporated these approaches or aspects of them in their professional practice. However, such approaches have not always been respected on their own merits by the social work profession. In recognition of this concern, the Canadian Association of the Social Workers (1994) have acknowledged the need for greater understanding and respect of Aboriginal practices.Item "Trauma and healing in Aboriginal families and communities"(School of Native Human Services, 1999-04) Lederman, JohnTraumatized people feel utterly abandoned, utterly alone, cast out of the human and divine systems of care and protection that sustain life. Thereafter, a sense of alienation, of disconnection, pervades every relationship, from the most intimate familial bonds to the most abstract affiliations of community and religion (Herman, 1997, p.52). This paper considers how traumatization of Aboriginal people may be of a unique process, characterized as it is by a long-standing and continuing history of repeating traumatic events, which affect entire communities; the length of time and extent of the trauma make it extremely difficult for the process of healing to take place.Item "Aboriginal students speak about acceptance, sharing, awareness and support: A participatory approach to change at a University and Community College"(School of Native Human Services, 1999-04) Young, WendyThe qualitative participatory action research on which I report in this paper represents a bicultural partnership venture between myself and Aboriginal students at two post-secondary educational institutions in North Eastern Ontario; Nipissing University and Canadore College. It was undertaken, in part, to generate an information base for the teaching and learning of Aboriginal students.Item Volume 2(School of Native Human Services, 1999-04) School of Native Human ServicesItem "The circle of healing"(School of Native Human Services, 1999-04) Stevenson, JeanMany Aboriginal communities and urban Aboriginal people in the field of social services are utilizing Healing Circles. Talking Circles or Sharing Circles as a way of providing group support for people who are dealing with issues such as addictions, violence, grief, and trauma. The Native Council of Canada's 1993 report affirms that "traditional Healing Circles are being used with increasing frequency in urban Aboriginal communities" (p. 1).