First voices : an Aboriginal woman's reader

Monture, Patricia A. (Author). McGuire, Patricia D. (Added Author).

Record details

ISBN: 9780980882292
ISBN: 0980882292
Physical Description: 538 p ; cm.
Publisher: Toronto : INANNA Publications and Education Inc, 2009.

Content descriptions

General Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

PROFILES OF ABORIGINAL WOMEN Kohkum would be Mad at me. / Patricia A. Monture -- Response to Canada's Apology to Residential School Survivors. / Beverley Jacobs -- A Portrait of Gladys Taylor. / Alice Olsen Williams -- The Life of a Chief: An Interview. / Nora Bothwell -- A Nice Story of Nihkom. / Lana Whiskeyjack -- Carrying the Pipe: Maliseet Elder, Healer and Teacher, Imelda Perley. / Maura Hanraban -- The Poverty and the Poetry: A Native Woman's Live History. / Garry Klugie -- An Interview with Katsi'tsakwas Ellen Gabriel, of the Kanien'keha:ka Nation, Turtle Clan. / Kim Anderson -- Role Models: An Anishnaabe-kwe Perspective. / Renee E. Mzinegiizbigo-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-Andersen, Patricia A. Monture & Nerissa O'Connor -- Brown Girl Dancing. / Kate Monture -- Women's Words: Power, Identity and Indigenous Soveriegnty. / Patricia A. Monture -- TERRITORY I Lost My Talk. / Rita Joe -- Reflections from a NamekasipiiwAnishnaapekwe 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 An 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 & Laura E. Lagendyk -- Two Spirited Aboriginal People: Continuing cultureal Appropriation by Non-Aboriginal Society. / Michelle Cameron -- Ensuring Indigenous Woman's Voices are Heard. / Mary Sukket -- "With the Appropriate Qualifications"" Aboriginal People and Employment Equity. / Patti Doyle-Bedwell -- HIV/AIDS and Aboriginal Women in Canada. / Susan Judith Ship & 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. / Carol 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 & Mary Hampton. Child Sexual Abuse: Words from concerned Women. / Aboriginal Women's council of Saskatchewan. Keeping tghe 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. A 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 Caugbnawaga. Aboriginal Peoples and the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms: Contradictions and Challenges. / Aki-Kwe/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. A 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. The Spirit of My Quilts. / Alice Olsen Williams. Our World. / Osennontion & Skonaganleh:ra. Indian Medicine, Indian Health. / Lesley Malloch. Chocolate Women Dreams the Milky Way. / Moniue Mojica. Locating Ourselves in the Place of Creation: The Academy as Kisu'lt melkiko'tin. Notokwe Opikiheet--"Old Lady Raised" Aboriginal Women's Reflections on Ethics and Methodologies. / Kim Anderson.