Mediating Indianness Grade Nine-Ten-Eleven-Twelve and the role of ritual

and the role of ritual during periods of overwhelming colonialism

and how these circles can work in family violence situations as well as building youth self-esteem

Jana-Rae Yerxa

the Grey Nuns

the pre-professional history of Canadian anthropology

Mediating Indianness Grade Nine-Ten-Eleven-Twelve and the role of ritualMediating Indianness investigates a wide range of media including print, film, theatre, ritual dance, music, recorded interviews, photography, and treaty rhetoric that have been used in exploitative, informative, educative, sustaining, protesting, or entertaining ways to negotiate Native American identities and images. The selection of the term Indianness is deliberate. It points to the intricate construction of ethnicity as filtered through media,