Strong Women Stories

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements

Introduction:
For the Betterment of Our Nations
Bonita Lawrence & Kim Anderson

PART I: Coming Home

Chapter 1
Where the Spirits Live:
  Women Rebuilding a Non-Status Mi'kmaq Community
Gertie Mai Muise

Chapter 2
The Drum Keeps Beating:
  Recovering a Mohawk Identity
Laura Schwager

Chapter 3
From the Stories that Women Tell:
  The Métis Women's Circle
Carole Leclair & Lynn Nicholson with Métis Elder Elize Hartley

Chapter 4
The Eagle Has Landed:
  Native Women, Leadership and Community Development
Sylvia Maracle

Chapter 5
Strong Spirit, Fractured Identity:
  An Ojibway Adoptee's Journey to Wholeness
Shandra Spears

PART II: Asking Questions

Chapter 6
Tribal Feminism Is A Drum Song
Rosanne Deerchild

Chapter 7
She No Speaks and Other Colonial Constructs of the 'Traditional Woman'
Dawn Martin-Hill

Chapter 8
Approaching the Fourth Mountain:
  Native Women and the Aging Process
Bonita Lawrence

Chapter 9
Arts and Letters Club:
  Two-Spirited Women Artists and Social Change
Nancy Cooper

Chapter 10
The Healing Power of Women's Voices
Zainab Amadahy

Chapter 11
Aboriginal Women's Action Network
Fay Blaney

PART III: Rebuilding Our Communities

Chapter 12
Vital Signs:
  Reading Colonialism in Contemporary Planning
Kim Anderson

Chapter 13
Creating a Community-Based School
Jean Knockwood

Chapter 14
Fetal Alcohol Syndrome:
  The Teachers Among Us
Rebecca Martell

Chapter 15
From Victims to Leaders:
  Activism Against Violence Towards Women
Cyndy Baskin

Chapter 16
The Truth About Us:
  Living in the Aftermath of the Ipperwash Crisis
Shelly E. Bressette

Chapter 17
Coming Full Circle:
  A Young Man's Perspective on Building Gender Equity
  in Aboriginal Communities
Carl Fernández

Selected Bibliography Contributors