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Social Science Native American Studies

Taking Medicine

Women's Healing Work and Colonial Contact in Southern Alberta, 1880-1930

by (author) Kristin Burnett

Publisher
UBC Press
Initial publish date
Jul 2011
Category
Native American Studies, NON-CLASSIFIABLE, Post-Confederation (1867-)
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9780774859578
    Publish Date
    Jul 2011
    List Price
    $99.00
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780774818292
    Publish Date
    Jul 2011
    List Price
    $34.95
  • Hardback

    ISBN
    9780774818285
    Publish Date
    Oct 2010
    List Price
    $37.95

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Description

Hunters, medicine men, and missionaries continue to dominate images and narratives of the West, even though historians have recognized women’s role as colonizer and colonized since the 1980s. Kristin Burnett helps to correct this imbalance by presenting colonial medicine as a gendered phenomenon. Although the imperial eye focused on medicine men, Aboriginal women in the Treaty 7 region served as healers and caregivers – to their own people and to settler society – until the advent of settler-run hospitals and nursing stations. By revealing Aboriginal and settler women’s contributions to health care, Taking Medicine challenges traditional understandings of colonial medicine in the contact zone.

About the author

Dr. Kristin Burnett is a professor in the Department of Indigenous Learning at Lakehead University. A settler scholar, Burnett has published broadly on topics related to Indigenous health and well-being, and much of her current research and policy work engages with systemic barriers to health care, social services and supports, and food.

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