TY - BOOK ID - 7987943 TI - A metaphoric mind : selected writings of Joseph Couture AU - Couture, Ruth AU - McGowan, Virginia Margaret PY - 2013 SN - 1926836529 1299906672 1926836537 PB - Edmonton, Alberta : AU Press, DB - UniCat KW - Consciousness. KW - Indians of North America KW - Older Indians KW - American Native Continental Ancestry Group KW - Religion and Psychology KW - Religion KW - Psychological Phenomena and Processes KW - Continental Population Groups KW - Humanities KW - Psychiatry and Psychology KW - Population Groups KW - Persons KW - Named Groups KW - Indians, North American KW - Spirituality KW - Gender & Ethnic Studies KW - Social Sciences KW - Ethnic & Race Studies KW - Politics and government KW - Social conditions KW - Education KW - Politics and government. KW - Social conditions. KW - Religion. KW - Couture, Joseph E. KW - Indian aged KW - Indian older people KW - Older people, Indian KW - American aborigines KW - American Indians KW - First Nations (North America) KW - Indians of the United States KW - Indigenous peoples KW - Native Americans KW - North American Indians KW - Aged KW - Culture KW - Ethnology KW - Indians KW - Older people KW - Education. KW - Couture, Joe KW - education. KW - first nations. KW - spirituality. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:7987943 AB - Dr. Joseph Couture (1930–2007), known affectionately as “Dr Joe,” stood at the centre of some of the greatest political, social, and intellectual struggles of Aboriginal peoples in contemporary Canada. A profound thinker and writer, as well as a gifted orator, he easily walked two paths, as a respected Elder and traditional healer and as an educational psychologist, one of the first Aboriginal people in Canada to receive a PhD. His work challenged and transformed long-held views of Canada’s Indigenous peoples, and his vision and leadership gave direction to many of the current fields of Aboriginal scholarship. His influence extended into numerous areas—education, addictions and mental health treatment, community development, restorative justice, and federal correctional programming for Aboriginal peoples. With a foreword by Lewis Cardinal, A Metaphoric Mind brings together for the first time key works selected from among Dr Joe’s writings, published and unpublished. Spanning nearly thirty years, the essays invite us to share in his transformative legacy through a series of encounters, with Aboriginal spirituality and ancestral ways of knowing, with Elders and their teachings, with education and its role in politicization, self-determination, and social change, and with the restorative process and the meaning of Native healing. ER -