Always a Part of the Land : The Federal Commemoration of Indigenous Histories Bill-C31 Shaman is a term used

Shaman is a term used by anthropologists and the unfortunate use in this resource for students adds a loaded perspective but does not offer an opportunity to examine various perspectives

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Always a Part of the Land : The Federal Commemoration of Indigenous Histories Bill-C31 Shaman is a term usedCody Groat is a Kanyenkehaka (Mohawk) citizen of Six Nations of the Grand River. He is assistant professor in the Department of History and the Indigenous Studies Program at the University of Western Ontario. The commemoration of a nations past is a highly contested process, fraught with identity politics and competing interests. For over a century even as the government of Canada denied them the rights to recognize or practise their cultures