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Restoring the Balance: First Nations Women, Community, and Culture
Eric Guimond, Gail Guthrie Valaskakis and Madeline Dion StoutRestoring the Balance brings to light the work First Nations women have performed, and continue to perform, in cultural continuity and community development. It illustrates the challenges and successes they have had in the areas of law, politics, education, community healing, language, and art, while suggesting significant options for sustained improvement of individual, family, and community well-being.
Written by fifteen Aboriginal scholars, activists, and community leaders, Restoring the Balance combines life histories and biographical accounts with historical and critical analyses grounded in traditional thought and approaches. It is a powerful and important book.
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Cover Page
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Title Page
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Copyright Page
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Contents
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List of Illustrations
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Dedication
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Acknowledgements
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Notes on Co - editors
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Notes on Contributors
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Introduction
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Theme 1: Historic Trauma
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Trauma to resilience : Notes on Decolonization
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Contributions That Count : First Nations Women and Demography
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First Nations Women’s Contributions to Culture and Community through Canadian Law
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Theme 2: Intellectual and Social Movements
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Leading by Action: Female Chiefsand the Political Landscape
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Creating an Indigenous Intellectual Movement at Canadian universities: The Stories of Five First Nations Female Academics
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Reflections on Cultural Continuity through Aboriginal Women’s Writings
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Sisters in Spirit
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Theme 3: Health and Healing
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Heart of the Nations: Women’s Contribution to Community Healing
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A relational Approach to Cultural Competence
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Theme 4: Arts, Culture, and Language
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A Culture of Art: Profiles of Contemporary First Nations Women Artists
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Looking for Stories and unbroken Threads: Museum Artifacts as Women’s History and Cultural Legacy
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The Role of First Nations Women in Language Continuity and Transition
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Bibliography
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- 9780887551864 (hardcover)
- 9780887553615 (ebook pdf)
- 9780887554124 (ebook epub)
- 9780887557095 (paperback)