"Until our hearts are on the ground" : Aboriginal mothering, oppression, resistance and rebirth / D. Memee Lavell-Harvard and Jeanette Corbiere Lavell, editors. - xiii, 249 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Includes bibliographical references.

Thunder spirits: reclaiming the power of our grandmothers / D. Memee Lavell-Harvard and Jeanette Corbiere Lavell -- New life stirring: mothering, transformation, and Aboriginal womanhood / Kim Anderson -- Birthing an Indigenous resurgence: decolonizing our pregnancy and birthing ceremonies / Leanne Simpson -- Becoming an Aboriginal mother: childbirth experiences of women from one Miʾkmaq community in Nova Scotia / Joanne Whitty-Rogers, Josephine Etowa, and Joan Evans -- An Anishinaabe-kwe ideology on mothering and motherhood / Rene*e Elizabeth Mzinegizhigo-kwe Be*dard -- Power mothering: the Haudenosaunee model / Jan Noel -- Dances with cougar: learning from traditional parenting skills programs / Joanne Arnott -- Back to basics: mothering and grandmothering in the context of urban Ghana / Brenda F. McGadney-Douglass, Nana Araba Apt, and Richard L. Douglass -- Aboriginal mothering: an Australian perspective / Belinda Wheeler -- Aboriginal mothering under the state's gaze / Randi Cull -- Canada's Indian residential schools and their impacts on mothering / Rosalyn Ing -- Fostering indigeneity: the role of Aboriginal mothers and Aboriginal early child care in responses to colonial foster-care interventions / Margo Greenwood and Sarah de Leeuw -- Aboriginal women vs. Canada: the struggle for our mothers to remain Aboriginal / D. Memee Lavell-Harvard and Jeanette Corbiere Lavell -- "They let their kids run wild": the policing of Aboriginal mothering in Quebec / Cheryl Gosselin -- Woman dreaming: an exploration of the Australian Aborigine's return to heritage / Debra Bruch -- "Confused with the sorrow": Aboriginal mothering in The antelope wife and Gardens in the dunes / Roxanne Harde -- Lost mothers and "stolen generations": representations of family in contemporary Aboriginal writing / Hilary Emmett.

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2007390170


Indian women--Family relationships--Canada
Mothers--Canada
Grandmothers--Canada
Indian women in literature

E78.C2 / U57 2006

306.8743089