Restoring the balance : First Nations women, community, and culture

Book 2009

"Restoring the Balance combines elements of First Nations traditions and mainstream feminism to produce an outstanding collection of historical and critical accounts of the impacts Aboriginal women have had in the areas of law, politics, education, community healing, language, art, and cultural retention. Fifteen scholars, activists and community leaders illuminate long-standing gender imbalances within the oral and written historical records tha...

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Femmes dans le développement communautaire Canada

Indiennes d'Amérique Canada Biographies

Indiennes d'Amérique Canada Conditions sociales

Indiennes d'Amérique Canada Histoire

Indigenous women Canada Biography

Indigenous women Canada History

Indigenous women Canada Social conditions

Resilience (Personality trait)

Résilience (Trait de personnalité)

Women in community development Canada

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ISBN:

9780887557095
9780887551864
0887557090
0887551866

Description:

xviii, 379 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), portraits ; 24 cm

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 355-379)

Contents:

Introduction / Gail Guthrie Valaskakis, Madeleine Dion Stout, and, Eric Guimond
Trauma to resilience: notes on decolonization / Cynthia C. Wesley-Esquimaux
Contributions that count: first nations women and demography / Cleo Big Eagle and Eric Guimond
First nations women's contributions to culture and community through Canadian law / Yvonne Boyer
Leading by action: female chiefs and the political landscape / Kim Anderson
Creating an indigenous intellectual movement at Canadian universities: the stories of five first nations female academics / Jo-Ann Archibald
Reflections on cultural continuity though aboriginal women's writings / Emma LaRocque
Sisters in spirit / Anita Olsen Harper
Heart of the nations: women's contribution to community healing / Marlene Brant Castellano
A relational approach to cultural competence / Gaye Hanson
A culture of art: profiles of contemporary first nations women artists / Viviane Gray
Looking for stories and unbroken threads: museum artifacts as women's history and cultural legacy / Sherry Farell Racette
The role of first nations women in language continuity and transition / Mary Jane Norris

Control Number:

938393

Other Authors:

Guimond, Éric
Stout, Madeleine Dion
Valaskakis, Gail Guthrie

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