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• Title:Unsettling spirit : a journey into decolonization / Denise M. Nadeau ; foreword by Deanna Reder.
  
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• Author/Creator:Nadeau, Denise Marie, author.
  
• Other Contributors/Collections:Reder, Deanna, 1963- writer of foreword.
  
• Published/Created:Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2020]
  ©2020
  

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  • Location:EDUCATION LIBRARY stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: E78.C2 N24 2020
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Nadeau, Denise Marie.
  Indigenous peoples--Canada--Social conditions.
  Decolonization--Canada.
  Decolonization--Religious aspects.
  Decolonization--Psychological aspects.
  Reconciliation--Social aspects--Canada.
  
• Description:xvii, 342 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
  
• Summary:"What does it mean to be a white settler on land taken from peoples who have lived there since time immemorial? In the context of reconciliation and Indigenous resurgence, Unsettling Spirit provides a personal perspective on decolonization, informed by Indigenous traditions and lifeways, and the need to examine one's complicity with colonial structures. Applying autoethnography grounded in Indigenous and feminist methodologies, Denise Nadeau weaves together stories and reflections on how to live with integrity on stolen and occupied land. The author chronicles her early and brief experience of "Native mission" in the late 1980s and early 1990s in northern Canada and Chiapas, Mexico, and the gradual recognition that she had internalized colonialist concepts of the "good Christian" and the Great White Helper. Drawing on somatic psychotherapy, Nadeau addresses contemporary manifestations of helping and the politics of trauma. She uncovers her ancestors' settler background and the responsibilities that come with facing this history. Caught between two traditions--born and raised Catholic but challenged by Indigenous ways of life--the author traces her engagement with Indigenous values and how relationships inform her ongoing journey. A foreword by Cree-Métis author Deanna Reder places the work in a broader context of Indigenous scholarship. Incorporating insights from Indigenous ethical and legal frameworks, Unsettling Spirit offers an accessible reflection on possibilities for settler decolonization as well as for decolonizing Christian and interfaith practice."-- Provided by publisher.
  
• Additional formats:Issued also in electronic format.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 295-321) and index.
  
• ISBN:0228001579 (hardcover)
  9780228001577 (hardcover)
  9780228002901 (epdf)
  9780228002918 (epub)
  
• Contents:Machine generated contents note: pt. ONE Mission Impossible
  1. Missionary Musings
  2. Denendeh Seminar
  3. Shifting Missions
  pt. TWO Great White Helper
  4. From Taking Space to Making Space
  5. Healing and the Politics of Trauma
  5. Decolonizing the Great White Helper and Reconciliation
  pt. THREE Going Home: Gespe'gewa'gi
  7. Blood
  3. Unmapping
  9. Decolonizing Rivers
  pt. FOUR Making Relations
  10. Moccasins
  11. Walking with Our Sisters
  12. Water Journey: Indigenous Water Laws
  13. Ceremony
  14. Reciprocity
  15. Living Treaty
  pt. FIVE Unsettling Spirit
  16. Lejac Residential School and Rose Prince
  17. Can You Hear the Drum? Indigenous Christianities
  18. Returning to the Heart.