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According to the Saskatchewan Indian Cultural Centre, “All First Nations Sweat Lodge ceremonies are intended for prayer and healing” (Strong Nations). As a “purification ceremony” a sweat can be a stand along ceremony or be linked to other ceremonies (Indigenous Saskatchewan Encyclopedia). Each First Nation will focus the “placement of the stones” for the
Research methodologies are systems used to understand the information and knowledge we encounter as researchers. Every research methodology (and there are numerous!) has its foundation in specific beliefs and theoretical groundings. Indigenous research methodologies “encompass tribal or Indigenous epistemologies” (Kovach (Nêhiýaw and Saulteaux), 2009, p. 21), meaning Indigenous research methodologies are representative of specific cultural ways of being.
For many of us, we celebrate the New Year on January 01 perhaps without realizing its roots in the Roman Empire and Christianity. The calendar most used is known as the Gregorian calendar, created in 1582 by Pope Gregory XIII (Tikkanen, 2018 ; De Guzman, 2023).
Thousands of Indigenous men and women have served in the Canadian military, starting in the First World War despite status First Nations people being exempt from conscription. Exact numbers aren’t known because enlistment forms didn’t only provided options other than First Nations or European identity (Métis veterans ; Sheffiel
