Life stages and Native women : memory, teachings, and story medicine /

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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Anderson, Kim, 1964-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Winnipeg : University of Manitoba Press, ©2011.
Colección:Critical studies in native history ; 15.
Temas:
1900-1999
Algonquian women > Canada > Social conditions > 20th century.
Algonquian women > Canada > Social life and customs > 20th century.
Métis women > Canada > Social conditions > 20th century.
Métis women > Canada > Social life and customs > 20th century.
Oral history > Canada.
Métis women > Social conditions > 20th century.
Métis women > Social life and customs > 20th century.
Algonquines > Canada > Conditions sociales > 20e siècle.
Algonquines > Canada > Mœurs et coutumes > 20e siècle.
Métisses > Canada > Conditions sociales > 20e siècle.
Métisses > Canada > Mœurs et coutumes > 20e siècle.
Histoire orale > Canada.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Women's Studies.
Métis women > Social conditions.
Oral history.
Canada.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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