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Severing the Ties that Bind: Government Repression of Indigenous Religious Ceremonies on the Prairies (Manitoba Studies in Native History) by Katherine Pettipas is a book available to read on EtoBox.

What is Severing the Ties that Bind: Government Repression of Indigenous Religious Ceremonies on the Prairies (Manitoba Studies in Native History) about?

Religious ceremonies were an inseparable part of Aboriginal traditional life, reinforcing social, economic, and political values. However, missionaries and government officials with ethnocentric attitudes of cultural superiority decreed that Native dances and ceremonies were immoral or un-Christian and an impediment to the integration of the Native population into Canadian society. Beginning in 1885, the Department of Indian Affairs implemented a series of amendments to the Canadian Indian Act, designed to eliminate traditional forms of religious expression and customs, such as the Sun Dance, the Midewiwin, the Sweat Lodge, and giveaway ceremonies.However, the amendments were only partially effective. Aboriginal resistance to the laws took many forms; community leaders challenged the legitimacy of the terms and the manner in which the regulations were implemented, and they altered their ceremonies, the times and locations, the practices, in an attempt both to avoid detection and to placate the agents who enforced the law.Katherine Pettipas views the amendments as part of official support for the destruction of indigenous cultural systems. She presents a critical analysis of the adm

Author

Katherine Pettipas

Publisher

Winnipeg: University of Manitoba Press

Published

1994

Language

EN

ISBN

9780887556388

Subjects

History, Religion, Humanities