Books – Religion

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  Severing the Ties that Bind

  Government Repression of Indigenous Religious Ceremonies on the Prairies

  Katherine Pettipas (Author)

  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. Katherine Pettipas presents a critical analysis of the administrative policies and considers the effects of government suppression of traditional religious activities on the whole spectrum of Aboriginal life, focussing on the experiences of the Plains Cree from the mid-1880s to 1951, when the regulations pertaining to religious practices were removed from the Indian Act.

  Published October 1994 | Critical Studies in Native History, Decolonization, History, Indigenous Studies, Religion

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  Monuments to Faith

  Ukrainian Churches in Manitoba

  Basil Rotoff (Author), Roman Yereniuk (Author), Stella Hryniuk (Author)

  In this richly illustrated volume, the authors trace the continuity of tradition in achitecture, art, and community life from Ukraine to the parishes of the Manitoba prairie.

  Published April 1990 | Art & Architecture, Ethnic Studies, History, Immigration, Religion

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  Singing Mennonite

  Low German Songs Among the Mennonites

  Doreen Helen Klassen (Author)

  In this pioneering book, Doreen Helen Klassen explores a collection of Mennonite Low German songs and rhymes.

  Published January 1989 | Ethnic Studies, History, Mennonite Studies, Music, Religion