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. There are few books on Aboriginal women in Canada; this anthology provides a valuable addition to the literature and fills a critical gap in the fields of Native Studies, Cultural Studies and Women’s Studies. (from Inanna website)
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.
