Research Catalog

Title

Life stages and Native women : memory, teachings, and story medicine / Kim Anderson ; foreword by Maria Campbell.

Author

Anderson, Kim, 1964-

Publication

Winnipeg : University of Manitoba Press, c2011.

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Description

xix, 210 p. : ill.; 23 cm.

Summary

Rediscovering the stories of the past serves as a healing force in the decolonization and recovery of Aboriginal communities. Anderson shares the teachings of elders from the Canadian prairies and Ontario to illustrate how different life stages were experienced by Métis, Cree, and Anishinaabe girls and women during the mid-twentieth century. Anderson explains how this traditional knowledge can be applied toward rebuilding healthy Indigenous communities today.

Series Statement

Critical studies in Native history, 1925-5888 ; 15

Uniform Title

Critical studies in native history ; 15.

Subject

• Algonquian women > Canada > Social conditions > 20th century
• Algonquian women > Canada > Social life and customs > 20th century
• Algonquines > Canada > Conditions sociales > 20e siècle
• Algonquines > Canada > Mœurs et coutumes > 20e siècle
• Canada
• Gender Identity
• Histoire orale > Canada
• History, 20th Century
• Indians, North American > history
• Métis women > Canada > Social conditions > 20th century
• Métis women > Canada > Social life and customs > 20th century
• Métisses > Canada > Conditions sociales > 20e siècle
• Métisses > Canada > Mœurs et coutumes > 20e siècle
• Oral history > Canada
• Social Conditions > history
• Women > history

Genre/Form

• Biography
• Biography.
• Interview
• Interview.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 199-206) and index.

Additional Formats (note)

• Also issued in electronic format.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction: Digging up the medicines -- Weaving the stories -- People and places -- The life cycle begins: from conception to walking -- The "good life" and the "fast life": childhood and youth -- Adult years: the women's circle -- Grandmothers and elders -- Bundling the layers: building on the strengths of the past to take us into the future.

ISBN

• 9780887557262
• 0887557260
• 9780887554056 (PDF e-book)
• 0887554059 (PDF e-book)
• 9780887554162 (epub e-book)
• 0887554164 (epub e-book)

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library