Empowered by Design?

"First Nations' Artforms in Relationship to Spirituality"

    Notes:
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1.0 Introduction

    1. Forward: The Essenes

    2. Dr. Scott Peck writes: "We cannot begin to hope to heal human evil until we are able to look at it directly. It is not a pleasant sight. Many that observed in his previous book, "The Road Less Traveled," that it was a nice book. This is not a nice book. It is about our dark side, and in large part about the very darkest members of our human community - those I frankly judge to be evil. They are not nice people. But the judgment needs to be made. It is the principal thesis of this work that these specific people - as well as human evil in general - need to be studied scientifically. Not in the abstract. Not just philosophically. But, scientifically. And to do that we must be willing to make judgments." Dr. Peck continues, "But I ask you for the present to bear in mind that such judgments cannot be made safely unless we begin by judging and healing ourselves. The battle to heal human evil always begins at home. And self-purifications will always be our greatest weapon." (M. Scott Peck, MD: 10) and

    3. Clutesi, George (1973) "Potlatch." "There is also evil. It belongs to a world that is not ours." (p. 102)

    4. McDonald D., Meijer-Drees, Dr. Laurie, (1999) Class Custom Courseware Package: FNAT 325.

    5. McMillan, Allan D. (01-05-99. Handout #1: 7)

2.0 The Research Process

    6. Armstrong, Jeannette Christine, (1995) "Trickster bows slightly, tips his hat, spins on his heel and disappears behind the glassed wall." - (Voices, Being Native in Canada: 5)

    7.Fanon, Franz: (1963) The Wretched of the Earth: "The country finds itself in the hands of new managers; but the fact is that everything needs to be reformed and everything thought out anew." (p. 100)

      "From nationalism we have passed to ultra-nationalism, to chauvinism, and finally to racism. These foreigners are called on to leave; their shops are burned, their street stalls are wrecked, and in fact, (the Government) commands them to go." (p. 156) While Fanon is speaking of Africans and the Dahoman and Voltaic peoples, this scenario was played out for the indigenous peoples of the North American continent at contact and throughout the colonial regime's governing of their affairs.

    8. Paul (1993) "The Indian Act encompassed virtually every aspect of Indian life." (p. 13)

    9. Demers, Helen (01-17-00) Anthropology 280 - Video: "The Owl and the Raven"

3.0 The Study of Trees

    10. F rankl, Dr. Victor E., (1959) Man's Search for Meaning:(xi)

    11. Year three: Spring 1999.

    12. Glossems on Historical Events, Conditions and Movements: The Micmac of Megumaagee.
    http://www.blupete.com/Hist/Gloss/Indians.htm#Spiritual

    13. 1902, British Columbia: A fir tree cut down in Lynn Valley, North Vancouver, BC, was 14-feet, two-inches across the butt, five feet up from the ground and its height measured 425 feet, The yield from this tree was almost 100,000 board feet - enough lumber to build an estimated nine modern houses. - From: The entertainer, Powell River Town Crier. Sunday, August 29, 1999. "Looking Back".

    * Milne, Courtney, (1990) Spirit of the Land, Book Jacket

    14. Cf. Arnold J. Toynbee, (1948) Civilization on Trial (Oxford University Press, New York. (p. 156)

    15. Gospel of the Essenes.

    16. Liberal Studies - Essays and Arguments. - (Ian Johnston:9)

    17. Joseph Lonewolf, (1975)Pottery Artesian, P.O. Box 55, Scottsdale, Arizona 85252 USA.

    18. B.K.S. IyengarTree of Yoga.

    19. Connerton Paul. (1996) How Societies Remember. Cambridge University Press (p. 56)

      a.) "The fact that all other participants in the action have adapted to circumstances and, at least externally, have made peace with those who now hold power."

      b.) The Ashkenazic Jews of Northern Europe, The Sephardi of the Mediterranean, the Falasha of Ethiopia, the Nei of India, the Karaites of the Crimea, all retain the dedication of faith called Shema in a central position. (This is the culture of Dr. V. Frankl.) - (p. 57)

4.0 Interpretive Analysis

    20. Cameron, Anne, (1981) Daughters of Copper Woman (p. 53-4)

    21. Daughters of Copper Woman (p. 109)

    22. Brody, Hugh. Maps and Dreams, Douglas and McIntyre. (p. 197)

    * Vansina, J. (1985) Oral Tradition as History. University of Wisconsin Press, Publisher.(Handout #1) " - oral historians typically interview participants in recent or very recent events, often of a dramatic nature, when historical consciousness in the communities involved is still in flux." -(p. 13).

    23. Archibald, Jo-ann, (1996) Journal of Canadian Native Education, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C. (Handout, Anthropology 280: Malaspina University-College, Nanaimo, B.C., October 1999).

    b. (Hampton, E. (1988) Toward a Redefinition of American Indian/Alaska Native Education, Unpublished PhD thesis, Harvard University).

    24. Tommy Prince: Testimonial.
    From - Mon Dec 04 09:00:57 2000
    Received: by nanaimo.ark.com
    From: "Frank McKERRY"
    To:
    Subject: Tommy Prince
    "You have a very nice site here. Tommy was a great soldier and a friend from years back. The people of Canada should hang their heads in shame for what happened to our aboriginal veterans and especially one Tommy Prince."

    Site reference: "Popular Culture and Mass Media", with Dr. Marshall Soules. http://www.mala.bc.ca/~soules/media112/zine2000/index.htm

    25. More of Tom Jackson
    www.schoolnet.ca/aboriginal/learningcircle/08/tom-e.html www.paquinentertainment.com/entertainment_agency/bros/JACKSON_bw.htm
    www.northof 60.net/pages/series_cast_tom.html

    * Three flags, are imposed atop each, into one image. There was great argument and debate across the country, as the people voted during 1965, choosing, or not, a new flag that gave Canada a symbol - for the purpose of defining her a separate and distinct country - no longer married to England.

    In his thesis, Dennis McPherson wrote:

    "They gained schoolteachers to teach their children and each chief was given a Canadian flag and a copy of the treaty. This was in 1906. It is interesting to note by wayof comparison that in Tahiti of the early 1800s, almost 100 years before, local chieftains "would be baptized, crowned king, presented with a portrait of Queen Victoria, introduced to the bottle, and left to the work of conversion." -(McPherson: 11, 12).

    With all due respect, this is a misconception. The flag was not 'Canadian', but the Union Jack, which, at that time in history, flew over Canada, just one of the many 'jewels in the crown' of Victoria, Queen of the British Empire.

5.0 Conclusion

    26. Anokeewin Kenomadee Gamik. (1991)

* Addendum

* Epilogue and Reflections


    27. Alfred, Taiaiake. (1999) PEACE POWER RIGHTEOUSNESS, an indigenous manifesto. Oxford University Press, ON. - Certain elements of Mr. Alfred's discussion concerning the rights of women and their future responsibilities in this present patriarchal society, was not well accepted by many female classmates.


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