Research Catalog

Title

Restoring the balance : First Nations women, community, and culture / Gail Guthrie Valaskakis, Madeleine Dion Stout, and Eric Guimond, editors.

Publication

Winnipeg : University of Manitoba Press, c2009.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Valaskakis, Gail Guthrie.
• Stout, Madeleine Dion.
• Guimond, Éric.

Description

xviii, 379 p., [12] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), ports.; 24 cm.

Summary

"Restoring the Balance combines elements of First Nations traditions and mainstream feminism to produce an outstanding collection of historical and critical accounts of the impacts Aboriginal women have had in the areas of law, politics, education, community healing, language, art, and cultural retention. Fifteen scholars, activists and community leaders illuminate long-standing gender imbalances within the oral and written historical records that have limited the self-actualization of First Nations women, and offer insight into the tangible work that Aboriginal women perform in community and cultural development."--BOOK JACKET.

Subject

• Indian women > Canada > Social conditions
• Indian women > Canada > History
• Women in community development > Canada
• Indian women > Canada > Biography
• Resilience (Personality trait)

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [355]-379).

Contents

Introduction / Gail Guthrie Valaskakis, Madeleine Dion Stout, and, Eric Guimond -- Trauma to resilience: notes on decolonization / Cynthia C. Wesley-Esquimaux -- Contributions that count: first nations women and demography / Cleo Big Eagle and Eric Guimond -- First nations women's contributions to culture and community through Canadian law / Yvonne Boyer -- Leading by action: female chiefs and the political landscape / Kim Anderson -- Creating an indigenous intellectual movement at Canadian universities: the stories of five first nations female academics / Jo-Ann Archibald -- Reflections on cultural continuity though aboriginal women's writings / Emma LaRocque -- Sisters in spirit / Anita Olsen Harper -- Heart of the nations: women's contribution to community healing / Marlene Brant Castellano -- A relational approach to cultural competence / Gaye Hanson -- A culture of art: profiles of contemporary first nations women artists / Viviane Gray -- Looking for stories and unbroken threads: museum artifacts as women's history and cultural legacy / Sherry Farell Racette -- The role of first nations women in language continuity and transition / Mary Jane Norris.

Call Number

JFE 10-4449

ISBN

• 9780887551864 (bound)
• 0887551866 (bound)
• 9780887557095 (pbk.)
• 0887557090 (pbk.)

OCLC

277205557

Title

Restoring the balance : First Nations women, community, and culture / Gail Guthrie Valaskakis, Madeleine Dion Stout, and Eric Guimond, editors.

Imprint

Winnipeg : University of Manitoba Press, c2009.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (p. [355]-379).

Added Author

Valaskakis, Gail Guthrie.

Stout, Madeleine Dion.

Guimond, Éric.

Research Call Number

JFE 10-4449