Let's Meet Québec's Aboriginal Women /

A holistic approach to the world “While Aboriginal nations differ considerably At the centre of the holistic vision is the idea in terms of language and cultural practices, that balance is the ideal to achieve, and that they share an overarching vision of the world every human is directed toward that goal. [...] It showcases the words of elected Aboriginal women who were met in the course of a unique collaboration between the Conseil du statut de la femme and the working group of elected women of the Assembly of the First Nations of Québec and Labrador ( ). [...] In 1892 the federal government introduced a Kiuna Institution, in the Abenaki policy of assimilation, a key ingredient of which was community of Odanak in Centre-du- the creation, with the Catholic church, of a network Québec, is the only CÉGEP devoted of residential schools across the country. [...] The sources of violence In Québec, Aboriginal women facing ‘‘ The sedentarization and colonization of the last domestic violence can seek refuge century, the scars left by the horrors committed in eleven shelters belonging to the in the Indian residential schools, discrimination, Réseau des maisons d’hébergement racism: the causes of violence among Aboriginals des femmes autochtones. [...] The study’s objectives included pinpointing the specific characteristics of the problem in Québec, identifying its causes, listening to the people affected, and proposing avenues for action appropriate to the Aboriginal populations of Québec.