Finding Dahshaa Cree and Health and Healing

and Health and Healing

Lines are simple and short expressing the poet’s relationship with the land and water

the growth of First Nations leadership

Yet the aspirations of Aboriginal students have too often been thwarted by the very structures that are supposed to help them

Finding Dahshaa Cree and Health and HealingFinding Dahshaa: Self Government, Social Suffering, and Aboriginal Policy in Canada by Stephanie Irlbacher Fox, a non Indigenous scholar who worked as negotiator for the Dehcho, Dln, and Inuvialuit and Gwich'in peoples in the Northwest Territories, offers a unique perspective and analysis of self government negotiations. Using the metaphor of dahshaa, a rotted spruce wood essential in moose hide tanning, the author examines three case studies to