Dr. Carrie Bourassa has produced a Marxist analysis of Métis health status that makes this book a must read for anyone interested in Métis or social justice issues. Using 2010 government of Canada data, that drew upon the 2006 Census, Dr. Bourassa notes that, "the Métis population increased by 33% since 2001 and 91% since 1996" (p. x). While this is an interesting fact, by itself, it becomes a concerning fact when Dr. Bourrassa adds that, "[r]esearch has consistently shown that First Nations have a much shorter life expectancy than that for Canada as a whole... The pattern is similar for Inuit. However, mortality patterns among Métis are largely unknown" (p. xi). With this book, Dr. Bourassa provides the raw data needed to prove the existence of unconscionable inequality that the Métis continue to suffer. It is hoped that this book not only demands that action be taken, but will make not taking action a non-option.

Métis Health : The Invisible Problem

Carrie A. Bourassa

JCharlton Publishing

This book is a tribute to the late Dennis "Denny" Michael Maloney. Under Dennis' leadership, Deschutes County's (Bend, OR), Juvenile Justice System became a national model for community justice. As Dr. Pavelka notes, "[t]he county's success at charting the course of national trends serves as an inspiration for other local communities..." (p. 37). Throughout all eleven chapters, the reader is introduced to current justice reforms, the thinking which underlies some of those reforms, and to whom Dennis Maloney, the charismatic and tenacious impetus behind many of these reforms, was. Favourably reviewed by: Dr. Gordon Bazemore, Chief Judge Donald Owen Costello, Dr. Gerry Johnstone, Dr. Carolyn Boyes-Watson, Mr. Dan Van Ness, Dr. Howard Zehr, and others.

The Legacy of Community Justice

Working with Aboriginal communities in places of higher learning

Herman J. Mitchell

Drawing upon her own life, scholarly work and a in-depth review of the relevant literature, Priscilla Settee delivers a perspective of what it means to be alive while, at the same time, furthering Indigenous-based struggles for decolonization, social justice and intellectual thought.  Dr. Melissa Nelson (San Francisco State University) notes: "Pimatisiwin skillfully interrogates the hegemony of power and politics in higher education and offers clear case studies and tools to speak truth to power, build learning alliances, and protect indigenous knowledge for the well-being of all humanity and the Earth."Review:Dr. Melissa K. Nelson, PhDPimatisiwin is a fascinating and unique offering to educators inside and outside of the academy and to activists globally.  Priscilla Settee is a Warrior Woman with a pen who has skillfully woven together her own personal story as a Cree scholar-activist with current research by First Nations and indigenous peoples from around the world.  The book outlines common struggles and provides practical solutions to indigenize the academy.  Pimatisiwin skillfully interrogates the hegemony of power and politics in higher education and offers clear case studies and tools to speak truth to power, build learning alliances, and protect indigenous knowledge for the well-being of all humanity and the Earth.  Settee's "pedagogy of hope and pimatisiwin" will guide the way to indigenous liberation and help create "the good life" once again.Dr. Melissa K. Nelson, PhDAnishinabe/Métis [Turtle Mountain Chippewa]Associate Professor American Indian StudiesSan Francisco State UniversityPresident of the Cultural Conservancy

PIMATISIWIN: The Good Life, Global Indigenous Knowledge Systems

Education & Teaching

Priscilla Settee PhD

Schools & Teaching

The Circle Fellowship

Richard W. Thatcher

Within Native Nations: The Survival of Fourth World Peoples (2nd Edition), Dr. Sharlotte Neely (Professor of Anthropology and Director, Native American Studies, Northern Kentucky University) has put together an impressive examination pertaining to the survival strategies employed by Indigenous peoples, within the world's most advanced nations, in order to discern how Native peoples have maintained their traditional culture, language, sacred lands, and identity.

Native Nations The Survival of Fourth World Peoples

Sharlotte Neely

Within this updated and expanded third edition of Swampy Cree Justice: Researching the Ways of the People, Dr. John G. Hansen (Member, Opaskwayak Cree Nation; and Associate Professor, Dept. of Sociology, University of Saskatchewan) builds upon his exploration of the concept of Indigenous/First Nations justice by incorporating discussions with three Omushkegowuk (Swampy Cree) Justice Committee members to the stories and explanations originally provided by the six Omushkegowuk Elders indigenous to northern Manitoba. In so doing, Dr. Hansen provides an example of how the philosophy of Omushkegowuk justice, (a concept of justice undergirded, and imbued with, a belief in education and healing), is being implemented in praxis. While Dr. Hansen provides a narrative and comparative understanding of Indigenous justice based upon the Omushkegowuk experience, its message will resonate with other Indigenous groups as they deal with Western justice systems based upon retribution and punishment as such adversarial systems tends to be divisive for the community, ostracizing for the offender, and ignoring of victim needs.

Swampy Cree Justice: Researching the Ways of the People

John G. Hansen

Dr's Gregory Cajete, John G. Hansen, Jay Hansford C. Vest, and John E. Charlton have expanded the breadth, depth and scope of Walking With Indigenous Philosophy: Justice and Addiction Recovery (3rd ed.) making it a multidisciplinary, international and cross-cultural examination of a restorative justice based approach, that at its heart draws upon the wisdom inherent within Indigenous cultures, in order to question hierarchical and heavily one-sided disease based understanding to addiction recovery. This third edition continues to advocate a model of restorative justice, saturated throughout by an Indigenous philosophy of holism and healing through inclusion and education, when working with those upon the margins, in order to appreciate and honour the whole person. Justice is understood as a concept that must be based upon, and within, the recognition of the other. It is from within this recognition of the other that accountability, as a healing endeavour, must find its grounding. The voices of Cree Elders indigenous to northern Manitoba, Indigenous Justice Workers, two American Indians (Cajete and Vest), one First Nation (Hansen), one addiction counselling professional (Charlton) and both Indigenous and non-Indigenous people in recovery are heard.

Walking With Indigenous Philosophy: Justice and Addiction Recovery

Gregory Cajete

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