A collection of Canadian children's poetry ranging from thoughtful and sensitive to funny and witty.
Contents
When your ears sing -- In silent snow -- Higher than the sun -- Everything in its place -- All my secrets -- Voices on the wind -- Whistling in the dark.
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.
A Poetry Book Society Recommendation 2016. 'When we climb alone en cordee feminine, we are magicians of the Alps - we make the routes we follow disappear'. The poems of Helen Mort's second collection offer an unforgettable perspective on the heights we scale and the distances we run, the routes we follow and the paths we make for ourselves. Here are odes to the women who dared to break new ground - from Miss Jemima Morrell, a young Victorian woman from Yorkshire who hiked the Swiss Peaks in her skirts and petticoats, to the modern British mountaineer Alison Hargreaves, who died descending from the summit of K2. Distinctive and courageous, these are poems of passion and precipices, of edges and extremes. No Map Could Show Them confirms Helen Mort's position as one of the finest young poets at work today.
Contents
An Easy Day for a Lady ; How to Dress ; Miss Jemima's Swiss Journal ; Ode to Bob ; Height ; The Fear ; Scale ; Beryl the Peril ; My Diet ; Difficult ; The Old Dungeon Ghyll ; Hill ; Black Rocks ; Descent ; Prayer ; Kiss ; Solo ; Nordwand ; Home ; At Night ; Above Cromford ; Route ; Dear Alison ; Engineer ; Lethal Roy ; Bloodhound ; Skirt ; Rachel in Attercliffe ; King's Cross ; Ink ; What Will Happen ; Ablation ; Hathersage ; Kalymnos ; Loutro ; Alport Castles ; Eagle Owl ; Royal Mile ; Kinder Scout ; Murmuration ; Big Lil ; Lil's dream ; What the papers said ; Lil's answer ; Lil's last word ; Tom Hulatt's Mile ; Heinrich Harrer's Motorbike ; How Much Can You Carry? ; Everest ; Oxygen ; Beck Weathers ; Sherpa ; Lene Gamelgaard ; First ; Rope
As the flames playing about the burning driftwood logs weave together many beautiful shades and colorings, so in this collection of verse, the author presents many delightful phases of fancy and imagination, skilful tone-colorings and word melodies.
Mrs. Mackay has a sensitive ear for the music of words and an instinctive feeling for rhythm. She has both imagination and humor, and a keen appreciation of the wonderful and the beautiful. Many of the lyrics in this collection have a universal emotional appeal while others reproduce with accuracy and fidelity a distinctively Canadian background and atmosphere. The author's many admirers will eagerly welcome this volume. -- From interior dust jacket
Sid Mary is a voice to be reckoned with. Beloved for his intimate, lyrical poetry, Marty’s depiction of selfhood, connection to place and to landscape have proven him a unique and dissenting voice in Canadian literature as well as a consistent presence in the Canadian environmental movement. This first ever collected works brings together old and new poems; published and unpublished works, in a celebration of the career and artistry of this Canadian icon. -- Provided by publisher.
