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His life became one where short-term employment was normal due to his abuse of alcohol. Finally later in life he was drawn to traditional healers and spiritual traditions. These teachings from Elders over several years brought him to a new understanding of his life, recovering from addiction and healing. The account is straightforward and readable for the general reader. The teachings discussed include Circle Teachings, the Sweatlodge, the Hub (Cree teachings), the Medicine Wheel, the Pipe, and the Medicines (tobacco, sweetgrass, sage and cedar). Nabigon begins the text with a brief introduction that explains the use of the hollow tree metaphor that appears in the title and throughout the book. Readers will be drawn to this honest account of one person's road to sobriety through the power of traditional teachings. Herb Nabigon is associate professor in Native Human Services at Laurentian University. Georges Sioui provides a moving Foreword to the 118-page book.","brand":"McGill-Queen's University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48167505559715,"sku":"gxf1789916256438","price":9.64,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0760\/7595\/8435\/files\/the-hollow-tree_1.jpg?v=1789916260"},{"product_id":"the-medicine-wheel-garden","title":"The Medicine Wheel Garden","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Medicine Wheel Garden is an interesting New Age approach to Native American spirituality and gardening with herbs. The author is an ethnobotonist whose other books relate to traditional medicine plants used by Native Americans. This book uses the medicine wheel as an organizing principle for creating backyard gardens in suburbia. The author describes the basics of medicine wheel symbolism as well as outlining various ceremonies from several tribal peoples of North America. The heart of the book provides detailed information about 50 medicinal herbs that can provide healing teas, skin creams, and soaps. The author describes each plant and also suggests cautions for using the herb. A step-by-step guide for planting an herb garden in the shape of a medicine wheel is provided. In addition, the book offers ideas for herbal crafts and some Native-inspired \"ceremonial\" objects, such as smudge sticks and prayer ties, as well as traditional uses of sweetgrass, sage, and tobacco. Those interested in Native spirituality are cautioned. The author often mixes New Age ideas and concepts with specific tribal ceremonies. This appropriation can be confusing. However, the section on plants and creating a garden in one's own back yard offers practical ideas for those who want to find a sanctuary close at hand. The concept of gardening as therapy is one that most 21st century North Americans will find comforting. 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Editors Gail Valaskakis, Madeleine Dion Stout, and Eric Guimond have organized the collection into 4 main themes that address Historic Trauma; Intellectual and Social Movements; Arts, Culture, and Language; and Health and Healing. Contributors include: Kim Anderson, Jo-ann Archibald, Cleo Big Eagle, Yvonne Boyer, Marlene Brant Castellano, Viviane Gray, Gaye Hanson, Anita Olsen Harper, Emma Larocque, Mary Jane Norris, Sherry Farrell Racette, and Cynthia C. Wesley-Esquimaux. Essays cover the important contributions made by First Nations women and the law; female political leadership; the personal stories of five female academics; women's contributions to community health; profiles of First Nations female artists; and the role of First Nations women in Language education. This volume is an important contribution to understanding the historical trauma Aboriginal women in Canada faced and their ongoing roles in sustaining cultural continuity and community building.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Manitoba Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48167524597923,"sku":"aop1789916491114","price":12.66,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0760\/7595\/8435\/files\/restoring-the-balance-first-nations-women-community-and-culture_1.jpg?v=1789916495"},{"product_id":"taking-back-our-spirits","title":"Taking Back Our Spirits","description":"Taking Back Our Spirits: Indigenous Literature, Public Policy, and Healing by Jo-Ann Episkenew, Associate Professor of English at the First Nations University of Canada, offers readers both the insider's and scholar's perspective about the connection of public policy to the healing power of Indigenous literature. Metis professor Jo-Ann Episkenew offers a highly readable analysis of the role of colonial governments in Canada and the policies that overtook the lives of First Nations, Inuit, and Metis. From the Indian Act, residential schools, the child welfare system, and the role of churches the author draws out the various ways government and institutions controlled Indigenous Peoples. As a Metis women working in an academic institution she clearly understood that historical and political contexts are factors that influence the everyday lives of First Nations, Inuit, and Metis communities and people. The author firmly believes in the healing power of Aboriginal literature including autobiography, fiction, and drama. The remaining chapters discuss her theory about this healing aspect of literature in such works as Maria Campbell's Halfbreed, Basil Johnston's Indian School Days, Beatrice Culleton Mosionier's In Search of April Raintree, Shirley Stirling's My Name is Seepeetza, Richard Wagamese's Keeper'n Me, Vera Manual's Strength of Indian Women, Daniel David Moses' Almighty Voice and His Wife, and Ian Ross's fareWel.","brand":"University of Manitoba Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48167524892835,"sku":"rra1789916495317","price":13.66,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0760\/7595\/8435\/files\/taking-back-our-spirits_1.jpg?v=1789916499"},{"product_id":"life-stages-and-native-women","title":"Life Stages and Native Women","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn 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 Métis, 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 ceremonies, 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. Kim Anderson is a Cree\/Métis educator. She is an Associate Professor in Indigenous Studies at Wilfrid Laurier University, Brantford. A foreword by Maria Campbell sets the overall tone for this valuable addition to the literature that incorporates the voices of Aboriginal women.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Manitoba Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48167535181987,"sku":"ftm1789916651490","price":15.47,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0760\/7595\/8435\/files\/life-stages-and-native-women_1.jpg?v=1789916655"},{"product_id":"aboriginal-policy-research-volume-2","title":"Aboriginal Policy Research - Volume 2","description":"\u003cp\u003eAboriginal Policy Research: Setting the Agenda for Change volume 2 along with volume one include the original papers presented at the first Aboriginal Policy Research Conference held in Ottawa in 2002. The papers in volume 2 are organized around themes that include economic development, health, gender issues, and crime, victimization, and healing issues. 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The book is organized according to ingredients from the land, sea, and sky, and includes menus based on the foods available in each season. Brief introductory pieces about the Wet'suwet'en people, wild rice, bannock and salmon are provided. Each recipe details amounts in metric and imperial measurements. Several colour photographs display the finished product. 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Topics covered include homes, clothing, food, health measures, life cycle, dreams, midewiwin, stories and legends, music, dances, games, seasonal cycle, transportation, weaving, tanning, picture writing, design, and beadwork. The author's research informants are identified in the text and resided in White Earth, Red Lake, Cass Lake, Leech Lake, Mille Lac, Minnesota communities, and Lac Court Oreilles in Wisconsin. She also interviewed Chippewa community members from Manitou Rapids in Ontario. 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Her oral history tells of the 1928 influenza epidemic, her childhood, courtship and later marriage to Andrew Ahenakew, and her encounter with a windigo. Andrew Ahenakew came from a prominent Cree family and he later became an Anglican minister. Despite his Christian faith, Alice describes her husband's healing medicines and the bear vision that made the healing possible. 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This highly articulate work is about the knowledge of Aboriginal mental health: who generates it; how it is generated and communicated; and what has been - and continues to be - its implications for Aboriginal peoples. To better understand how this knowledge emerged, James Waldram undertakes an exhaustive examination of three disciplines - anthropology, psychology, and psychiatry - and reveals how together they have constructed a gravely distorted portrait of the Aboriginal patient. Waldram continues this acute examination under two general themes. The first focuses on how culture as a concept has been theorized and operationalized in the study of Aboriginal mental health. The second seeks to elucidate the contribution that Aboriginal peoples have inadvertently made to theoretical and methodological developments in the three fields under discussion, primarily as subjects for research and sources of data. It is Waldram's assertion that, despite the enormous amount of research undertaken on Aboriginal peoples, researchers have mostly failed to comprehend the meaning of contemporary Aboriginality for mental health and illness, preferring instead the reflection of their own scientific lens as the only means to properly observe, measure, assess, and treat. 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The latter half of the book features information for both parents and caregivers alike. It includes tools such as the Northern Pain Scale, which helps doctors and nurses understand the severity of a child’s pain using Inuit facial expressions. In addition to the story about one child's experiences the picture book lists children's hospitals and cancer treatment facilities and a map of flight paths from Arctic locations to these facilities; navigation and coordination services by region; descriptions of all medical team members; answers to FAQs; the northern pain scale, most appropriate for Inuit children; a glossary; an art project; and additional resources. This informative book was written by Pediatric Nurse Practitioner, Patricia McCarthy. 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Most of her 43 informants were women living on the White Earth, Red Lake, Cass Lake, Leech Lake, and Mille Lac Reservations in Minnesota, the Lac Court Oreilles Reservation in Wisconsin, and the Manitou Rapids Reserve in Ontario. Her primary informant and translator was Mary Warren English of White Earth. The text is organized around the use of plants as food, medicine, charms, dyes, and in the creation of household articles and decorative arts. Charts listing the plants according to their scientific, common and Ojibwe names are provided as well as a list of their medicinal properties. The importance of healing plants used to treat disease and injury are recorded. Included are 33 plates each containing several photographs. The detailed first-hand information about collecting, preserving and using medicinal plants is invaluable. Methods of harvesting and cooking wild rice, making maple sugar, and preparing beverages, vegetables and fruits are detailed. In the decorative arts section, the author describes in text and photographs the intricate work of Ojibwe women in the creation of birch-bark biting as art. Also included are two stories about Winabojo (Nanabosho) and the birch and cedar trees. 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Frances Densmore (1867-1957) was an ethnomusicologist with the Smithsonian Institution and her research into Ojibwe music brought her to the study of over 200 plants used by the Ojibwe of Minnesota, Wisconsin and Northern Ontario from 1908-20. Most of her 43 informants were women living on the White Earth, Red Lake, Cass Lake, Leech Lake, and Mille Lac Reservations in Minnesota, the Lac Court Oreilles Reservation in Wisconsin, and the Manitou Rapids Reserve in Ontario. Her primary informant and translator was Mary Warren English of White Earth. The text is organized around the use of plants as food, medicine, charms, dyes, and in the creation of household articles and decorative arts. Charts listing the plants according to their scientific, common and Ojibwe names are provided as well as a list of their medicinal properties. The importance of healing plants used to treat disease and injury are recorded. Included are 33 plates each containing several photographs. The detailed first-hand information about collecting, preserving and using medicinal plants is invaluable. Methods of harvesting and cooking wild rice, making maple sugar, and preparing beverages, vegetables and fruits are detailed. In the decorative arts section, the author describes in text and photographs the intricate work of Ojibwe women in the creation of birch-bark biting as art. Also included are two stories about Winabojo (Nanabosho) and the birch and cedar trees. Unfortunately there is no index but the table of contents lists the amazing amount of information in this classic of ethnology. This new edition includes an introduction by Ojibwe professor Brenda J. Child. Child sets the context and background of this important work by Densmore by providing personal anecdotes about food plants and their uses. 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