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The Impact of Resource Development on Native People

Publication: Canadian Journal of Community Mental Health
January 1983

Abstract

Cultural differences such as differences, for example, in the customary level of consciousness among native and non-native peoples, account for a large measure of the existing conflicts. The period of meditation at the beginning of this presentation seems appropriate and “valuable” in the traditional native culture, but out-of-place and surprising to members of the non-native culture who value much more highly the alert, attentive, problem-solving orientation in consciousness. Ultimately, a more balanced perspective may be found to be more successfully—one that does not negate native values of conservation and contemplation.

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Les différences culturelles, telles que les différences dans le niveau habituel de conscience chez les autochtones et les non-autochtones, expliquent une bonne part des conflits existants. La période de réflexion au début de cet exposé semble appropriée et “utile” dans la culture autochtone traditionnelle, mais elle est insolite et surprenante aux yeux des membres des communautés non-autochtones qui attachent beaucoup plus d'importance à un type d'esprit vigilant, attentif, orienté vers la résolution des problèmes. En fin de compte, l'adoption d'un mode d'approche plus nuancé, qui ne nierait pas les valeurs autochtones de conservation et de contemplation, serait peut-être un meilleur gage de succès.

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cover image Canadian Journal of Community Mental Health
Canadian Journal of Community Mental Health
Volume 2Number S1January 1983
Pages: 51 - 52

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Version of record online: 28 April 2009

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Anthony Stickel
Coquitlam, British Columbia

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