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Life Stages and Native Women: Memory, Teachings, and Story Medicine

Life Stages and Native Women: Memory, Teachings, and Story Medicine

Anderson, Kim
Campbell, Maria

Hardcover

Series: Critical Studies in Native History, Book 15

Native American HistoryWomen's Studies

ISBN10: 088755248X
ISBN13: 9780887552489
Publisher: University of Manitoba Press
Published: Sep 2 2011
Pages: 234
Weight: 1.07
Height: 0.69 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

A rare and inspiring guide to the health and well-being of Aboriginal women and their communities. The process of digging up medicines - of rediscovering the stories of the past - serves as a powerful healing force in the decolonization and recovery of Aboriginal communities. In Life Stages and Native Women, Kim Anderson shares the teachings of fourteen elders from the Canadian prairies and Ontario to illustrate how different life stages were experienced by Metis, Cree, and Anishinaabe girls and women during the mid-twentieth century. These elders relate stories about their own lives, the experiences of girls and women of their childhood communities, and customs related to pregnancy, birth, post-natal care, infant and child care, puberty rites, gender and age-specific work roles, the distinct roles of post-menopausal women, and women's roles in managing death. Through these teachings, we learn how evolving responsibilities from infancy to adulthood shaped women's identities and place within Indigenous society, and were integral to the health and well-being of their communities. By understanding how healthy communities were created in the past, Anderson explains how this traditional knowledge can be applied toward rebuilding healthy Indigenous communities today.

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