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Author Crowshoe, Reg

Title Akak'stiman : a Blackfoot framework for decision-making and mediation processes / Reg Crowshoe and Sybille Manneschmidt
Edition 2nd ed
Published Calgary, Alta. : University of Calgary Press, 2002

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Description 1 online resource (x, 94 pages) : illustrations, 1 map, portraits
Contents Methodology -- History of the Peigan People -- Prehistoric Times -- Dog Days -- Horse Days -- Early Contact -- Treaty Days -- The Early Twentieth Century -- Population -- Starvation -- Epidemics -- Social Structures -- Family and Extended Family -- Bands -- Tribe -- Societies -- Leadership -- Roles of Men and Women -- Peigan/Blackfoot Concepts of Sacred Bundles and their Functions -- The Natoas (Sun Dance Bundle) -- The Beaver Bundle -- The Thunder Medicine Pipe Bundle -- Societies' Bundles -- Individual or Personal Bundles -- Transfer Rites -- The Blackfoot Circle Structure Process -- Healing, Health Services, and Health Providers -- Traditional Blackfoot Medical Care -- Western Medical Services -- Canadian Government Health Bureaucracy -- The Blackfoot Circle Structure Model and its Application Health Administration -- An Application Mediation Processes in Child Protection and in Business -- Creation Story -- First Contacts Between White Men and Blackfoot -- Legend of Star Boy (Later, Poia, Scarface) -- The Elk-Woman -- Origin of the Long Time Pipe -- Origin of the Medicine Pipe -- Loss and Capture of the Thunder Pipe -- Transfer History of the Small Thunder Medicine Pipe -- Interview: Bull Horn Doctor
Notes Previous ed: 1997
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 91-94)
Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL
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Subject Piegan Indians -- Medicine
Piegan Indians -- Medical care
Siksika Indians -- Medical care
Siksika Indians -- Medicine
Traditional medicine -- Alberta
Ethnology.
Indians of North America.
Piegan Indians -- Rites and ceremonies
Siksika Indians -- Rites and ceremonies
Medicine, Traditional
Ethnology
Anthropology, Cultural
Indians, North American
ethnology.
social anthropology.
HEALTH & FITNESS -- Health Care Issues.
MEDICAL -- Public Health.
MEDICAL -- Health Policy.
HEALTH & FITNESS -- Diseases -- General.
MEDICAL -- Diseases.
MEDICAL -- Health Care Delivery.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Ethnic Studies -- Native American Studies.
Indians of North America
Ethnology
Traditional medicine
SUBJECT Alberta
Subject Alberta
Form Electronic book
Author Manneschmidt, Sybille, 1952-
ISBN 0585438536
9780585438535
9781552382776
155238277X
1280945656
9781280945656
9786610945658
6610945659