Pub Date : 2022-10-02DOI: 10.1080/02722011.2022.2148059
James Naylor
Government Motion Picture Bureau and the Ontario Motion Picture Bureau. Indeed, the book left me wanting more—which is not intended as a criticism—but rather it raises many questions that could lead to further avenues of research. The chapter on the North makes one wonder about how NFB nature documentaries represent other Canadian regions versus the nation-state; for example, what about films dealing with the fisheries in Atlantic Canada? How unique were these NFB productions? Granted Screening Nature and Nation is not intended to be a comparative, but I am curious about where these films fit within broader state-sponsored visions (or even commercial: i.e., Disney’s contemporaneous nature series) from a global perspective? Also, how does tourism factor into these narratives of nature? Sponsoring agencies frequently intended NFB films, particularly those dealing with wildlife and the National Parks, to promote tourism under the aegis of being “educational.” These questions aside, the monograph is a valuable addition to the historiography on Canadian cinema and environmental studies.
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Pub Date : 2022-10-02DOI: 10.1080/02722011.2022.2151691
Joseph T. Miller
important contribution of this work because it reveals that the lack of attention to care in social policy is important not just for older populations, but for others as well. Like older people, disabled people face many barriers when seeking safe, adequate, and affordable housing as well, and disabled people are over-represented among the homeless population. Especially for people with severe disabilities, preventing homelessness or ending homelessness requires not just income and housing, but also care. An understanding of the importance of care draws attention to the tremendous insufficiency of current approaches to care, not just for older people but for other populations as well, and of the desperate need to break down silos among sectors. While maintaining an emphasis on the imperative of meeting the unmet needs of older people with experiences of homelessness, it would have been interesting to conclude the book by zooming back out to consider how this detailed and thoughtful study of late-life homelessness can inform responses to homelessness more broadly.
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Pub Date : 2022-10-02DOI: 10.1080/02722011.2022.2148056
Michael S. Hogue
This richly detailed study uses sound and music to illuminate the varied interactions among the people involved in the British North American fur trade. The landscape of that fur trade, Daniel Laxer shows, was punctuated by shouts, gun shots, songs, musical instruments
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Pub Date : 2022-10-02DOI: 10.1080/02722011.2022.2151692
Alison Smith
with origins that predated the creation of their community. As Rück has stated, The Laws and the Land examines primarily the actions committed on an Indigenous community by the state instead of presenting these relationships as Indigenous history. While the author begins with a focus on settler colonialism, he gradually reveals his work is much more than a micro example of colonization on the outskirts of one of Canada’s largest cities. Kahnawa’kehró:non did not simply respond to these enormous pressures, they innovatively made decisions to protect their community and minimized the harm. Kahnawà:ke law may have been the basis of this resistance, but new ideas emerged from dire situations. While settler colonialism is a popular approach to Indigenous history, it should be asked if there is a danger in over emphasizing its strength. It seems that Kahnawà:ke experienced a higher degree of settler colonialism than its neighbors. Other reserves in the valley surely had similar challenges, but by the nineteenth century, Kahnawà:ke’s location—once prized for trade and alliance formation—was on the front lines of industrialization that could not be stopped. Rück knows the invasion of the setter state of Canada that he so carefully lays out caused considerable harm to Indigenous people, and it continues to do so. He values forging positive relationships with Indigenous community members, and these personable connections have not only changed him as a scholar, but also reveal the benefits they produce in writing about Indigenous communities. While some readers may hesitate with the author’s movement toward a declension narrative, Rück truly makes us appreciate the significant obstacles that Kahnawa’kehró:non confronted to protect their land base and assert their own laws.
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Pub Date : 2022-07-03DOI: 10.1080/02722011.2022.2095498
J. S. Ullrich, L. Demientieff, Emma-Jane Elliott
ABSTRACT This article presents three Indigenous scholars’ academic research on Indigenous well-being and describes our personal journeys in relation to the knowledge received from our communities. LaVerne Xilegg Demientieff shares the Five Cs of Healing-Centered Engagement, Jessica Saniġaq Ullrich shares the Indigenous Connectedness Framework, and Emma Elliott shares her observations about the relationality of well-being. As Indigenous scholars, we each have put ancestral knowledge and practices about health and well-being into action through our own lives and relationships for better dissemination and utility of the research. In this article, we engage in storytelling about learning, living, and sharing the teachings of Indigenous well-being that highlights the relational knowledge exchange among researchers, knowledge bearers, and beloved community. It is not enough to learn and gain knowledge and new perspectives; this knowledge must be shared and applied to real life so that the social and environmental justice, healing, and relational changes that communities yearn for become a reality.
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Pub Date : 2022-07-03DOI: 10.1080/02722011.2022.2114266
P. Johnston, Shirley Tagalik, Rosanna Amarudjuak
ABSTRACT Drawing on research with Inuit mothers from Arviat, Nunavut, this article explores child welfare social services in Nunavut, Canada. Since its inception in the 1950s, the state’s model for child welfare has always been at odds with Nunavummiut life, culture, and beliefs. This article highlights how the design and execution of model of child welfare has provided the majority of decision-making power to Qallunaat (non-Inuit). Through an examination of the experiences of Arviarmiut mothers (Inuit mothers from Arviat, Nunavut), this article considers this model of child welfare in light of how it contributes to fear and a lack of understanding concerning child welfare involvement, as well as its impact on child and family well-being. Based within literature that supports the development of an alternative Indigenous model to child welfare, this study offers critical insights concerning child welfare within Inuit communities in Arctic Canada, and describes Arviarmiut mothers’ recommendations for an Inuit-developed and -led, culturally centered model of child and family wellness.
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Pub Date : 2022-07-03DOI: 10.1080/02722011.2022.2114063
Mathilde Lapointe, N. Boucher, Ariane Benoit, Christopher Fletcher
ABSTRACT What is a community? This seemingly simple question emerged at the outset of the Qanuikkat Siqinirmiut? (QS) research project on Inuit health in southern Quebec, led in partnership with the Southern Quebec Inuit Association. The question finds its salience in the rapid growth of a southern Inuit population in cities across Canada, a population that has distinct and significant health needs. After early qualitative research, we came to doubt whether the term community adequately characterizes the situation of the roughly 2,000 Inuit living in the South. Thus, this article examines the discourse of community. Specifically, we present an analysis of two schools of thought on the subject: first, the notion of community from classic academic work in urban geography by the Chicago School; and second, inuuqatigiitsiarniq (living well together), which comes from an Inuit system of values and model of health. We first describe the ethnographic data upon which our analysis is drawn and introduce key concepts. Then, we identify conceptual shortcomings in the Chicago School’s notion of community and describe how inuuqatigiitsiarniq expands and nuances the concept. Finally, we discuss the potential of using both concepts to foster a refined understanding of relational health for Inuit living in Montreal.
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Pub Date : 2022-07-03DOI: 10.1080/02722011.2022.2114683
P. Johnston, N. Fabbi, Tram Nguyen
This edition of the American Review of Canadian Studies (ARCS) is the outcome of an eighteen-month research project that brought together an international team of scholars and practitioners to address the concepts of wellness and well-being in Arctic Canada as well as other Indigenous communities in Canada and Alaska. The team met frequently, sometimes with outside advisors, to discuss and consider these concepts and practices from Indigenous-centered perspectives. We reflected on how we might understand wellness and well-being from non-Western models, which, until recently, have dominated the conversation. What are the unique challenges to wellness and well-being in Arctic Canada and beyond? How can Arctic Indigenous approaches to these practices shape understandings of wellness and well-being?
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Pub Date : 2022-07-03DOI: 10.1080/02722011.2022.2102356
M. Stoller
ABSTRACT This article reflects on film training opportunities for young Nunavummiut and the relationship of film and filmmaking to youth wellness and well-being. A case study of the Gjoa Haven Film Society, founded in 2017, highlights the uses of film to document and share stories and cultural events from the community. The article examines film as a medium for engaging youth in historical and cultural learning, and references a longer history of Inuit film and television to illustrate how these have been used to preserve and promote Inuit culture. The article also compares some of the logistical and conceptual barriers to participation in the film industry at a professional level. Not all Inuit youth with interests in these media are able to pursue film training as a professional career, and there remains a need for supporting their involvement in filmmaking at the sub-professional level.
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Pub Date : 2022-07-03DOI: 10.1080/02722011.2022.2090046
Nicole Lamb Ives, Wanda Gabriel
ABSTRACT The Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada calls for closing education gaps between non-Indigenous and Indigenous Canadians as part of the real work of reconciliation, that is, walking the decolonization talk. In Nunavik, a part of Inuit Nunangat, addressing these education gaps is complex, requiring trust building between educational institutions and Inuit communities. In Nunavik’s 14 communities, there are only two Inuit who hold Bachelor of Social Work degrees. Establishing or rebuilding trust is extraordinarily difficult given ongoing colonial policies and institutional structures that disregard Inuit experience. This article describes the journey of developing a Bachelor of Social Work degree program in Kuujjuaq, Nunavik, to be called Inulirijiit, in the context of the history of social welfare for Nunavimmiut and how Canada’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission (2008–2015) and the Public Inquiry Commission on Relations between Indigenous Peoples and Certain Public Services in Québec (Viens Commission, 2019) have shaped contemporary social work education and practice. We argue that the Bachelor of Social Work degree program must have at its center Inuit ways of knowing, learning, teaching, and being.
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