| Summary: | Behind the Buckskin Curtain looks at how spiritual ceremonies and drama
activities impact Aboriginal youth's healing experience? This thesis is about an
Aboriginal youth study that was conducted from April 9 - May 14, 2003. The study
included youth between the ages of 19 - 25 who were living in Vancouver, British
Columbia. Participants committed to get together once a week for six weeks at the
Native Education Centre in the inner-city of Vancouver BC. This study was proposed to
inquire into the spiritual needs of Aboriginal Youth in British Columbia. Specifically this
study inquires into the participants regained healing through their use of spiritual
ceremonies and drama activities.
Chapters one to three discuss healing in the British Columbia Aboriginal
community. Chapter four discusses the way in which the Aboriginal youth study
unfolded. Chapter five and six look at the results and the conclusions, implications, and
recommendations the study indicates.
Aboriginal youth share with us what they have learned prior to the study about
their spiritual lives and about how they have learned through their experience with
spiritual ceremonies combined with drama activities. The results show that Aboriginal
youth did gain healing through their participation in spiritual ceremonies combined with
drama activities. === Education, Faculty of === Curriculum and Pedagogy (EDCP), Department of === Graduate
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