Walking with SAGE Clan Patrol: practicing Niitsitapiikimmapiiyipitssinni in healing addiction

dc.contributor.authorCran, Amy
dc.contributor.supervisorWilson, Patrick
dc.date.accessioned2023-10-03T16:36:59Z
dc.date.available2023-10-03T16:36:59Z
dc.date.issued2023
dc.description116 pages
dc.description.abstractThis thesis will examine if and how a local, grassroots, Blackfoot-led outreach organization, SAGE Clan Patrol (Serve, Assist, Guard, and Engage) is guided by traditional Blackfoot Ways of Knowing, and how the work of this organization intersects with other proposed approaches to addiction treatment in Southern Alberta, including harm reduction framework and abstinence-oriented treatment. Through an ethnographic account of patrols from June to August 2022, it will explore how the work of this organization fits into narratives of ostensibly competing FNMI (First Nations, Métis, Inuit) and Western frameworks of health in the context of addiction treatment, and specifically, whether SAGE Clan's approach can be said to map onto a "Culture as Treatment" model. Further, it will explore the possibilities (and limits) of conceiving of the work of this organization under the banners of decolonization and reconciliation.
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10133/6593
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherUniversity of Lethbridge, Dept. of Anthropology
dc.publisher.departmentDepartment of Anthropology
dc.publisher.facultyArts and Science
dc.subjectSAGE Clan Patrol
dc.subjectAddiction treatment
dc.subjectCulture as treatment
dc.subjectBlackfoot-led outreach
dc.subjectOpioid crisis
dc.subjectNiitsitapiikimmapiiyipitssinni
dc.subject.lcshPublic safety--Alberta--Lethbridge
dc.subject.lcshDecolonization
dc.subject.lcshReconciliation
dc.subject.lcshOpiod abuse--Alberta--Lethbridge
dc.subject.lcshHarm reduction
dc.titleWalking with SAGE Clan Patrol: practicing Niitsitapiikimmapiiyipitssinni in healing addiction
dc.typeHonors Thesis
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