A Recognition of Being

Table of Contents

Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction

I
Setting Out
Chapter 1: Story of the Storyteller
Chapter 2: Working with Notions of Tradition and Culture
Chapter 3: Literary and Oral Resources

II
Looking Back: The Colonization of Native Womanhood
Chapter 4: The Dismantling of Gender Equity
Chapter 5: Marriage, Divorce and Family Life
Chapter 6: The Construction of a Negative Identity

III
Resist
Chapter 7: Foundations of Resistance
Chapter 8: Acts of Resistance
Chapter 9: Attitudes of Resistance

IV
Reclaim
Chapter 10: Our Human Relations
Chapter 11: Relating to Creation

V
Construct
Chapter 12: The Individual
Chapter 13: Family
Chapter 14: Community and Nation
Chapter 15: Creation

VI
Act
Chapter 16: Nurturing Self
Chapter 17: Nurturing the Future

VII
Pause/Reflect
Concluding Dialogue
Kim Anderson and Bonita Lawrence

Reference List and Participant Biographies
Endnotes
Bibliography
Index