Exhibit
Contemporary Role Models
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Madeleine Dion Stout
Photographer: Jeff Thomas
Ottawa, Ontario, 2001
Ektacolour print
Contemporary Role Models
Today, Aboriginal communities are reclaiming their history, their dignity and are restoring their faith in their culture. At the same time, new role models are emerging in communities across Canada. The Survivors of the residential school experience are powerful symbols that a future does exist for Aboriginal people, dismissing the 19th- century myth of the vanishing Indian.
Madeleine Dion Stout, Cree, Kehewin First Nation, attended the Blue Quills Indian Residential School in St. Paul, Alberta. She is a former professor of Canadian Studies, and Director of the Centre for Aboriginal Education, Research and Culture at Carleton University, Ottawa. A past president of the Aboriginal Nurses Association of Canada, she is well respected for her work in Aboriginal health issues.
The Role Models section is included as part of the exhibition to propose the question: who would you consider a role model? Or even someone from the past like Big Bear or Poundmaker.
