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category: Social Science
published: Oct 2010
ISBN:9780774818285
publisher: UBC Press

Taking Medicine

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

by Kristin Burnett

tagged: native american studies, post-confederation (1867-), prairie provinces (ab, mb, sk)
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

Kristin Burnett

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.

Contributor Notes

Kristin Burnett is a member of the Department of History at Lakehead University.

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