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At the onset of this project, our idea was to travel to the Canadian arctic to meet with the children there and have both the Aboriginal children and non-Aboriginal children draw pictures of what an Aboriginal child means to them and compare these drawings.
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Blight, M., Eady, M. (2015). What Do Canadian Aboriginal Children in the Northwest Territories Understand about Themselves through their Drawings?. In: Brown, J., Johnson, N.F. (eds) Children’s Images of Identity. Transgressions: Cultural Studies and Education, vol 107. Springer, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-124-3_11
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