Carrie Bourassa is a the new Chair of Northern &
Indigenous Health at Health Sciences North Research Institute in
Sudbury after spending the last fifteen years as Professor of
Indigenous Health Studies at First Nations University of Canada.
Carrie completed her Ph.D. (Social Studies) in 2008. Her
dissertation is entitled Destruction of the Métis Nation: Health
Consequences. Her book, based on her dissertation was released in
the fall of 2012 entitled Métis Health: The Invisible Problem. Dr.
Bourassa is proud to be the successful Nominated Principal
Investigator on two Canada Foundation for Innovation Grants that
funded the Indigenous Community-based Health Research Labs at
FNUniv and the Cultural Safety, Evaluation and Training Lab. Carrie
is a member of the Royal Society of Canada, College of New
Scholars, Artists and Scientists, an Institute Advisory Board
Member, Institute of Indigenous People’s Health and a Public Member
of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada. Carrie’s
research interests include the impacts of colonization on the
health of Indigenous people; creating culturally safe care in
health service delivery; Indigenous community based health research
methodology; Indigenous HIV/AIDS research; Indigenous end of life
and dementia care and Indigenous women’s health. Carrie is Métis,
belonging to the Regina Riel Métis Council #34. She resides in
Regina with her husband, Chad and her daughters, Victoria and
Lillie.
Elder Betty McKenna is Anishnabae from the Shoal
River Band and is very knowledgeable about many traditional
teachings which she has learned from her grandmother and from
teachings of various other elders. She is the Elder in Residence,
First Nations and Métis Education at the Regina Public School Board
as well as the guiding elder for RESOLVE (Research and Education to
End Violence and Abuse) Saskatchewan, provides leadership to many
research projects including: Completing the Circle: End of Life
Care with Aboriginal Families with Dr. Mary Hampton and Dr. Carrie
Bourassa, Understanding from Within: Developing Community-Driven
and Culturally Safe Models for Understanding and Responding to
Neurological Conditions among Aboriginal Women with the Native
Women’s Association of Canada, Rural and Northern Response to
Intimate Partner Violence with Dr. Mary Hampton and Aboriginal
Grandmothers Caring for Grandchildren with Kerrie Strathy, Dr.
Carrie Bourassa and Dr. Wendee Kubik, to name a few. She is also
co-author on several peer reviewed publications and sits on two
graduate committees at the University of Regina. Elder Betty was
appointed by former Premier Roy Romanow to the College of
Physicians and Surgeons Council of Saskatchewan. She serves on the
National Elders Advisory, Correctional Services Canada as well as
numerous other committees. In 2012, Elder Betty won a Saskatchewan
Health Excellence Award in the “Health of a Population”
category.
Darlene Juschka teaches in Women’s and Gender
Studies and Religious Studies at the University of Regina. Her
areas of interest are semiotics, critical theory, feminisms, and
posthumanism. Some of her more recent work includes: “Feminism and
Gender”. In Steven Engler and Michael Stausberg (eds.), The
(Oxford) handbook of the study of religion; with Melissa Wuerch,
Kim Zorn, and Mary Hampton (2016). “Responding to Intimate Partner
Violence: Challenges Faced among Service Providers in Northern
Communities”; Journal of Interpersonal Violence, (May), 1-21; and
,em>“Enfleshing semiotics: The indexical and symbolic
sign-functions”;. (2014). She has also published Political Bodies,
Body Politic: The Semiotics of Gender (2009) (Translated and
published in Chinese in 2015) and Feminism in the study of
religion: A reader(2001). She is currently working on a book
entitled “Contours of the flesh: The semiotics of pain” and a case
study focused on Intimate Partner violence in a northern
Saskatchewan community.
?The diversity of these stories of parenting is indicative of the diversity we see in the Indigenous communities of Turtle Island. The authors share their past colonial experiences yet bring hope by expressing how current cultural practices are imbedded in their parenting. Listening to the Beat of Our Own Drum is a testament to the decolonization of communities, families, and parenting.? ?LYNN LAVALLE?E, Associate Professor, School of Social Work, Ryerson University ?A fresh, fascinating and instructive book with a forward-looking approach in terms of the healing and regeneration of Indigenous parenting. These often personal stories come from a variety of experiences, lenses, and underrepresented voices, making an engaging read and attesting to the ongoing strength of extended Indigenous families.? ?KIM ANDERSON, Associate Professor, Department of Family Relations and Applied Nutrition, University of Guelph
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