I AM A KIND MAN

HADIH HOUSE

• 2105 pine street
• Workshops, programs, & support groups
• Drop-in, open from 10-4:30 mon-friday
• Coffee, Internet, phone, fax, laundry, clothing room

TRIBE

• What are some of the different aspects of living? Then vs. now?

WHAT DID IT MEAN TO BE A MAN, AMONG A TRIBE?

WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO BE A MAN IN TODAYS DAY AND AGE?

COLONIALISM:

• Control by one power over a dependant area or people.
• A policy advocating or based on such control.

COLONIALISM IN CANADA

• Forced to reserves
• Needed a pass from indian agent to leave reserve
• Potlatch and sun dance outlawed
• Children seized and forced to residential schools and foster homes ("Sixties Scoop")
• New Zealand, USA, Australia, South Africa all endured similar experiences.

IMPACTS AND OUTCOMES

• Continued impacts of children taken into care
• Devastating impacts on families and culture loss
• Family breakdown & parenting problems
• Socio-economic issues & poverty
• Over representation of incarceration
• Addictions & mental illnesses
• Loss of identity
• Urbanization & increase in Aboriginal Street Gangs

IMPACTS & OUTCOMES

• Criminalization
• Racism
• Colonized space
• Undereducation
• Own belief of racialized identity and stereotypes
• Hopelessness & low self-esteem

HOW DOES THIS EFFECT US AS MEN?

• Chip on your shoulder
• Resistence
• Resistence
• Lack of trust
• Bravado & toughness
• Loss of respect for women
• Sexual exploitation
• Aggressiveness & capacity for violence
• Resistance to authority

HYPER-MASCULINITY

• Exaggerated ideas of manhood
• Linked to the role of a warrior
• Associated with: violence, dominance, physical strength, heterosexuality, intimidation, & reputation

LOST OUR WAY

• How do we find our way?
• Being in touch with family, and remembering those family values
• Creating your own values
• Learning Culture
• Educate yourself
• Community and its role in your own health and wellness
• Learn about you?
• Take care of yourself

Untitled Slide

• The culture of violence in indigenous masculinity has to do with a sense of powerlessness among the men.... The men get into fights because the people they really want to fight --- the colonial powers --- they can't get at them.