Cultural Trauma, Ritual and Healing

In this chapter I will discuss the effects of agency loss, cultural trauma and healing, by focusing on the impact the boarding schools, the so called residential school, had and still has on contemporary Cana-dian Mi’kmaq Native identity, drawing on interviews from one of my fieldworks conducted on...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hornborg, Anne-Christine
Other Authors: Collste, Göran
Format: Book Part
Language:English
Published: Linköping University Electronic Press 2010
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Online Access:https://lup.lub.lu.se/record/2117162
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Summary:In this chapter I will discuss the effects of agency loss, cultural trauma and healing, by focusing on the impact the boarding schools, the so called residential school, had and still has on contemporary Cana-dian Mi’kmaq Native identity, drawing on interviews from one of my fieldworks conducted on the island Cape Breton, Nova Scotia.