A Metaphoric Mind Selected Writings of Joe Couture 2007 Part 1 of Volume 1

Part 1 of Volume 1 describes Canada’s residential school system in the historical context of European campaigns to colonize and convert Indigenous people throughout the world

but rather about how our ritualized and institutionalized systems of maintaining and policing those clichés prevent us from recognizing our common humanity within each other

The opening chapter contains 7 essays from Inuit

the necessity of considering where you come from and who you are

the False Faces and the Thunder Beings

A Metaphoric Mind Selected Writings of Joe Couture 2007 Part 1 of Volume 1A Metaphoric Mind: Selected Writings of Joseph Couture is a welcome addition to the literature on Aboriginal education, worldview, and spirituality from an Indigenous scholar. Dr. Joseph Couture (19302007), 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