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Returning to the teachings : exploring Aboriginal justice

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    CAPER-BC, 2025
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    BC Libraries Cooperative, 2025
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    Certified Accessible By: National Network for Equitable Library Service
    Publisher:
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  • Author: Ross, Rupert
    Date:
    Created
    2006
    Summary:

    Relates moving past the pain and suffering that grip so many communities and into the exceptional promise of individual, family, and community healing that traditional teachings are now restoring to Aboriginal Canada. Gives an insight into unique and puzzling ways concerning ancient visions of Creation and our role with it.

    Contents:
    • The movement towards teaching and healing
    • Healing inside the whirlwind of sexual abuse
    • Digging for the roots of the healing vision
    • Towards a fluid reality
    • Watch your language
    • The first step to reconnection
    • The healing path has potholes too!
    • The whirlpool vision of crime
    • At the crossroads: responding to the abuse of power in small communities
    • Choosing the healing path
    • Getting started on the healing path
    • And finally ... the starting point.
    Genre:
    Canadian nonfiction, Indigenous materials, Social science
    Subject(s): Canada | Community-based corrections | Criminal justice, Administration of | Indigenous peoples | Indigenous peoples--Social life and customs | Restorative justice
    Original Publisher: Toronto, Penguin, Canada
    Language(s): English
    ISBN: 0143055593, 9780143055594