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First voices : an aboriginal women's reader

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    Inanna Publications, 2012
    Note: This book was purchased with support from the Government of Canada's Social Development Partnerships Program - Disability Component.
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    Inanna Publications and Education, 2009

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    2012
    Summary:

    A collection of articles that examine many of the struggles that Aboriginal women have faced, and continue to face, in Canada. Sections include: Profiles of Aboriginal Women; Identity; Territory; Activism; Confronting Colonialism; the Canadian Legal System; and Indigenous Knowledges. Photographs and poetry are also included.

    "This volume brings us the stories of wisdom keepers and artists, academics and activists, the women who have carried us, and the women who have fought for our freedom, who are working in different ways to bring about justice and healing for our people and our land. It is a work of love, and of great beauty." —Bonita Lawrence, author of “Real” Indians and Others: Mixed-Blood Urban Native People and Indigenous Nationhood.

    Contents:

    Introduction / Patricia A. Monture and Patricia D. McGuire --
    Profiles of Aboriginal Women --
    Kohkum would be Mad at me / Patricia A. Monture --
    Response to Canada's Apology to Residential Shool Survivors / Beverley Jacobs --
    Portrait of Gladys Taylor / Alice Olsen Williams --
    Life of a Chief: An Interview / Nora Bothwell --
    Nice Story of Nohkom / Lana Whiskeyjack --
    Carrying the Pipe: Maliseet Elder, Healer and Teacher, Imelda Perley / Maura Hanrahan --
    Poverty and the Poetry: A Native Woman's Life History / Garry Klugie --
    Interview with Katsi'tsakwas Ellen Gabriel, of the Kanien'keha:ka Nation, Turtle Clan / Kim Anderson --
    Role Models: An Anishnaabe-kwe Perspective / Renee E. Mzinegiizhigo-kwe Bedard --
    Sky Woman Lives On: Contemporary Examples of Mothering the Nation / Lina Sunseri --
    Identity --
    Healing Is / Isabel Louise O'Kanese --
    Wiisaakodewikwe Anishinaabekwe Diabaajimotaw Nipigon Zaaga'igan: Lake Nipigon Ojibway Metis Stories About Women / Patricia D. McGuire --
    Surviving as a Native Woman Artist / Joane Cardinal-Schubert --
    N'tacimowin innan nah': Our Coming In Stories / Alex Wilson --
    Triple Jeopardy: Aboriginal Women with Disabilities / Doreen Demas --
    Inuit Women and the Politics of Naming in Nunavut / Valerie Alia --
    Feminism and Aboriginal Culture: One Woman's View / Agnes Grant --
    Grandmothers, Mothers, and Daughters / Shirley O'Connor-Anderson, Patricia A. Monture and Nerissa O'Connor --
    Brown Girl Dancing / Kate Monture --
    Women's Words: Power, Identity and Indigenous Sovereignty / Patricia A. Monture --
    Territory --
    I Lost My Talk / Rita Joe --
    Reflections from a NamekosipiiwAnishinaapekwe My Trout Lake, Your Trout Lake / Kaaren Olsen Dannenmann --
    Anishnaabekwe, Traditional Knowledge and Water / Deborah McGregor --
    Nunavut: Whose Homeland, Whose Voices? / Isabel Altamirano-Jimenez --
    First Nations Women and Sustainability on the Canadian Prairies / Brenda McLeod --
    Third World Housing Development and Indigenous People in North America / Winona LaDuke --
    Matrimonial Real Property Solutions / Elizabeth Bastien --
    Activism --
    Invocation/Incantation to the Women Word-Warriors for Custom-Made Shoes / Monique Mojica --
    Aboriginal Women at Midlife: Grandmothers as Agents of Change / Lynn M. Meadows, Wilfreda E. Thurston and Laura E. Lagendyk --
    Two Spirited Aboriginal People: Continuing Cultural Appropriation by Non-Aboriginal Society / Michelle Cameron --
    Ensuring Indigenous Women's Voices are Heard: The Beijing Declaration of Indigenous Women / Mary Sillet --
    "With the Appropriate Qualifications": Aboriginal People and Employment Equity / Patti Doyle-Bedwell --
    HIV/AIDS and Aboriginal Women in Canada / Susan Judith Ship and Laura Norton --
    Aboriginal Women and the Constitutional Debates: Continuing Discrimination / Native Women's Association of Canada --
    Moving Beyond the Feminism Versus Nationalism Dichotomy: An Anti-Colonial Feminist Perspective on Aboriginal Liberation Struggles / Lina Sunseri --
    Writing on the Wall: Metis Reflections on Gerald Vizenor's Strategies for Survival / Carole Leclair --
    Confronting Power: Aboriginal Women and Justice Reform / Patricia A. Monture --
    Confronting Colonialism --
    White man tell me / Patricia A. Monture --
    Racism, Sexism and Colonialism: The Impact on the Health of Aboriginal Women in Canada / Carrie Bourassa, Kim McKay-McNabb and Mary Hampton --
    Child Sexual Abuse: Words from Concerned Women / Aboriginal Women's Council of Saskatchewan --
    Keeping the Circle Strong in the North: Solvent Abuse, Alcohol and Drug Strategies for the North / Rosemarie Kuptana --
    Simpering Outrage During an "Epidemic" of Fetal Alcohol Syndrome / Caroline L. Tait --
    For Kayla John / Robina Thomas --
    Is Canada Peaceful and Safe for Aboriginal Women? / Anita Olsen Harper --
    Culture of Loss: The Mourning Period of Paper Indians / Apryl Gladue --
    Confronting the Canadian Legal System --
    Freedom / Kate Monture --
    "The Least Members of Our Society" / The Mohawk Women of Caughnawaga --
    Aboriginal Peoples and the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms: Contradictions and Challenges / Aki-Kwe and Mary Ellen Turpel --
    Aboriginal Women's Rights as "Existing Rights" / Sharon D. McIvor --
    Women and the Canadian Legal System: Examining Situations of Hyper-Responsibility / Caefs/Nwac --
    Entrenched Social Catastrophe: Native Women in Prison / Fran Sugar --
    Suitable Place: Positive Change for Federally-Sentenced Aboriginal Women in Canada / Lori Sparling --
    Women and Risk: Aboriginal Women, Colonialism and Correctional Practice / Patricia A. Monture --
    International Human Rights Standards and Instruments Relevant to Indigenous Women / M. Celeste Mckay --
    Indigenous Knowledges --
    When I Was a Child / Shirley Ida Williams-Pheasant --
    Spirit of My Quilts / Alice Olsen Williams --
    Our World / Osennontion & Skonaganleh:ra --
    Indian Medicine, Indian Health / Lesley Malloch --
    Chocolate Woman Dreams the Milky Way / Monique Mojica --
    Locating Ourselves in the Place of Creation: The Academy as Kisu'lt melkiko'tin / Emerance Baker --
    Notokwe Opikiheet --
    "Old Lady Raised" Aboriginal Women's Reflections on Ethics and Methodologies / Kim Anderson --
    Conclusion / Patricia D. McGuire and Patrcia A. Monture.

    Original Publisher: [S.l.], Inanna Publications
    Language(s): English