Indigenous Writes: A Guide to First Nations, Metis, and Inuit Issues in Canada, Chelsea Vowel's 2016 scholarly guide from Portage and Main Press and HighWater Press, by a Metis lawyer and scholar, is a widely taught guide to First Nations, Metis and Inuit issues; its treatment of pan Indianism names the medicine wheel specifically, distinguishing the Plains stone structures and their community specific teachings from the modern, invented pan Indian four directions teaching diagram, and naming its commercial and New Age misuse. Its strength is that it is squarely the fact's own conceptual distinction, from a widely taught scholar writing within her own communities. Its limit is that it is a general guide across many issues, so any one topic such as the medicine wheel receives a chapter's treatment rather than a monograph's.
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Tier one: a widely taught scholarly guide by a Metis lawyer and scholar, reaching the pan Indianism and medicine wheel distinction directly from within her own communities. Its limit is that it is a general guide across many issues, so any one topic receives a chapter's treatment rather than a monograph's. NotesBy a Metis lawyer and scholar, a widely-taught guide to First Nations, Metis and Inuit issues; its treatment of pan-Indianism names the medicine wheel specifically, distinguishing the Plains stone structures and their community-specific teachings from the modern, invented pan-Indian four-directions teaching diagram and naming its commercial and New Age misuse. Squarely the fact's own conceptual distinction.
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AuthorChelsea Vowel
PublisherPortage and Main Press / HighWater Press
Publication Year2016
URLhttps://www.portageandmainpress.com/Books/I/Indigenous-Writes
Source TypeBook (practitioner)
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This source names Canada directly: "Nations, Metis, and Inuit Issues in Canada, Chelsea Vowel's 2016 scholarly guide from Portage and Main Press and HighWater Press, by a Metis lawyer and scholar, is a widely taught guide to First..."
Metis, Deities This source names Metis directly: "Writes: A Guide to First Nations, Metis, and Inuit Issues in Canada, Chelsea Vowel's 2016 scholarly guide from Portage and Main Press and HighWater Press, by a Metis lawyer and scholar, is a widely..."
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This source backs 12 claims across the atlas. As facts: 9 well-attested. As cited relationships: 2 holds. Plus 1 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.
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- Sources, 10 claims: 8 well-attested, 2 holds.
- Articles, 1 claims: 1 well-attested.
- Sacred Objects & Ritual Items, 1 claims: 1 general references.
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1Sacred Objects & Ritual Items
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