Indigenous Life Courses, Racialized Gendered Life Scripts, and Cultural Identities of Resistance and Resilience

• Main Author: Alook, Angele
• Other Authors: Lawrence, Bonita
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: 2016
• Subjects: Sociology; Indigenous; Indigenous research methodologies; Indigenous family; Indigenous feminism; Indigenous sociology; Cultural identity; Resistance; Resilience; Life course approach; Colonialism; Cree; Metis; Life scripts; Sociology of education; Sociology of work; School to work transitions; Personal agency; Bigstone Cree Nation; Treaty 8; Alberta; Canada; Wabasca
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10315/32285

The aim of this research project was to understand the cultural identity of young Indigenous adults living between on-reserve, off-reserve rural settings, and the city. The secondary research question examined the gendered experiences of family, school, and work in this process. I interviewed men an...