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    Restoring the balance : First Nations women, community, and culture / Gail Guthrie Valaskakis, Madeleine Dion Stout, and Eric Guimond, editors.

    • Title:Restoring the balance : First Nations women, community, and culture / Gail Guthrie Valaskakis, Madeleine Dion Stout, and Eric Guimond, editors.
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    • Other Contributors/Collections:Valaskakis, Gail Guthrie.
      Stout, Madeleine Dion.
      Guimond, Éric.
      Archibald, Jo-ann, Q'um Q'um Xiiem, 1950-
      Xwi7xwa Collection
    • Published/Created:Winnipeg : University of Manitoba Press, ©2009.
    • Holdings

       
    • FNHL (Xwi7xwa) Subjects:Indigenous Peoples--Women
      Indigenous Peoples--Women--History
      Indigenous Peoples--Intellectuals--Women
    • Library of Congress Subjects: Women in community development--Canada.
    • Description:xviii, 379 p., [12] p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 23 cm.
    • Local note:First nations author.
    • Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages [355]-379).
    • ISBN:0887557090 (pbk.)
      9780887557095 (pbk.)
      0887551866 (bound)
      9780887551864 (bound)
    • Contents:List of illustrations
      Dedication
      Acknowledgements
      Notes on co-editors
      Notes on contributors
      Introduction / Gail Guthrie Valaskakis (Chippewa), Madeleine Dion Stout (Cree, Kehewin), and Eric Guimond (Mi'kmaq)
      Theme 1 / Historic trauma
      Trauma to resilience : notes on decolonization / Cynthia C. Wesley-Esquimaux
      Contributions that count : First Nations women and demography / Cleo Big Eagle (Nakoda, Assiniboine) and Eric Guimond (Mi'kmaq)
      First Nations women's contributions to culture and community through Canadian law / Yvonne Boyer
      Theme 2 / Intellectual and social movements
      Leading by action : female Chiefs and the political landscape / Kim Anderson (Cree, Métis)
      Creating an Indigenous intellectual movement at Canadian universities: the stories of five First Nations female academics / Jo-ann Archibald (Sto:lo) Reflections on cultural continuity through Aboriginal women's writings / Emma LaRocque (Cree, Métis)
      Sisters in spirit / Anita Olsen Harper (Ojibwa)
      Theme 3 / Health and healing
      Heart of the nations: women's contribution to community healing / Marlene Brant Castellano (Mohawk)
      A relational approach to cultural competence / Gaye Hanson (Cree)
      Theme 4 / Arts, culture, and language
      A culture of art: profiles of contemporary First Nations women artists / Viviane Gray (Mi'kmaq) Looking for stories and unbroken threads: museum artifacts as women's history and cultural legacy / Sherry Farrell Racette (Timiskaming)
      The role of First Nations women in language continuity and transition / Mary Jane Norris (Algonquin)
      Bibliography.
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