LU|ZONE|UL Collection: Editor: Taima Moeke-Pickering
https://zone.biblio.laurentian.ca/handle/10219/1978
Editor: Taima Moeke-Pickering2024-03-29T11:24:47ZAambe Maajaadaa! Community organizing in Indigenous Communities and Leanne Simpson's Dancing on our Turtle's Back: Stories of Nishnaabeg Re-Creation, Resurgence, and a New Emergence
https://zone.biblio.laurentian.ca/handle/10219/1987
Title: Aambe Maajaadaa! Community organizing in Indigenous Communities and Leanne Simpson's Dancing on our Turtle's Back: Stories of Nishnaabeg Re-Creation, Resurgence, and a New Emergence
Authors: Williamson, Tara
Abstract: When I was asked to develop a community organizing course for the
Aboriginal Emphasis Initiative in the social service worker program
at Fleming College, I began running through the list of great books,
articles, and other resources I’ve used or seen in the last few years on
this topic. Although I do have a background in social work, I have also
had the opportunity to study and work in the fields of law and Indigenous
governance; and so, I look to all of these areas when considering the most
current and relevant information on any topic. In the process, I quickly
realized the kinds of divisions that still happen between disciplines that
tend to limit the dialogue in any field before the conversation has even
started. In response, I’d like to open the horizon a little and offer a book
review of a new work that would normally be classified as “Native Studies”
but which I have found to be an incredible contribution to the field of
community development and organizing in its focus on Indigenous ways of thinking, knowing and how that relates to organizing and mobilizing in Indigenous communities.2012-12-03T00:00:00ZCultural competency - Working with Aboriginal Peoples: A non-Native perspective
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Title: Cultural competency - Working with Aboriginal Peoples: A non-Native perspective
Authors: Vinkle, Erin
Abstract: Throughout the course of my education in the Social Work field, I have
come to learn about the importance of cultural competency as it pertains
to the helping profession and working with Aboriginal peoples. There
are many disheartening issues that First Nations communities face in our
country today. I have gained some insight of the rules and regulations that
the Federal government has placed upon Aboriginal people. Government
legislation has created impossible boundaries that prevent Aboriginal
populations the right to exercise equality in Canada. Unfortunately those
most affected are the lives of many innocent Native women, children
and families who struggle with poverty, violence and racism on a daily
basis. Racism towards Aboriginal peoples continues to happen generation
after generation. It is necessary within the social work profession to raise
awareness about how our society lacks the knowledge and understanding
of Aboriginal culture. If social work practice recognizes the need to be
culturally competent when working with Aboriginal peoples then we
should examine how our actions will lead us to that goal.2012-12-03T00:00:00ZIndigenous Social Work Field Education: "Melq'ilwiye" Coming together towards reconciliation
https://zone.biblio.laurentian.ca/handle/10219/1985
Title: Indigenous Social Work Field Education: "Melq'ilwiye" Coming together towards reconciliation
Authors: Clark, Natalie; Reid, Michelle; Drolet, Julie; Walton, Patrick; Peirce, Joanna; Charles, Grant; Vedan, Richard; Samuel, Miriam; Mathews, Nadine; Burke, Susan; Arnouse, Mike
Abstract: This article describes a participatory action research project currently
unfolding across five university/community sites from British Columbia
to South India that is working to reveal, review and reconcile Indigenous
social work and human service field education. Subsequent to a research
development project identifying culturally safe practices in Aboriginal
social work field education (Clark, Drolet, Arnouse, Mathew, Michaud,
Walton, Tamburro, Derrick, & Armstrong, 2009) our intersectional
research team set out to expand and center this Indigenous knowledge
in five diverse university/community sites and begin a reconciliation
process between mainstream dominant social work and human service
theories, policies or practices that may be harmful for Indigenous students
who are doing their field placements. The article considers how field
education, and working by example, the researchers and the research
project, can create fissures in the dominant normativity of this social
work domain. The authors argue for an Indigenous intersectionality
framework as an important component of reconciliation within social
work field education. One of the goals of this research project is to center
indigenous and local knowledges and to begin a reconciliation process
within the social work and human service field education programs
while maintaining strong commitments to social justice and activism.2012-12-03T00:00:00ZThe Master of Aboriginal Social Work Program: Elders and culture camp as the foundation
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Title: The Master of Aboriginal Social Work Program: Elders and culture camp as the foundation
Authors: Sanderson, Joan
Abstract: This reflection paper, written by a faculty member who is also an
alumni, recognizes the School of Indian Social Work (SISW) as one
of the early programs of Indigenous social work in Canada (1974).
In 2001 the SISW had its first intake into the Master of Aboriginal
Social Work (MASW) and this paper primarily focuses on important
Indigenous practices within this post graduate program. The MASW
begins its program in August with Culture Camp, ASW 800, which is
held on a Saskatchewan First Nation community. The teachers for
this experiential course are two traditional First Nations Elders, a
female and a male. In the fall semester the Elders continue to teach
Traditional Counselling, ASW 822, so their essential role is maintained.
These Elders are available outside of class time to support the students
in their growth and healing. The Elders and Culture Camp provide the
foundation for the MASW.2012-12-03T00:00:00Z