Life Stages and Native Women: Memory, Teachings, and Story Medicine
by Kim Anderson
University of Manitoba Press, 2011
Paper: 978-0-88755-726-2 | eISBN: 978-0-88755-405-6
Library of Congress Classification E99.A35A53 2011
Dewey Decimal Classification 305.488973071
Paper: 978-0-88755-726-2 | eISBN: 978-0-88755-405-6
Library of Congress Classification E99.A35A53 2011
Dewey Decimal Classification 305.488973071
TOC
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Cover
Contents
Acknowledgements
Foreword by Maria Campbell
Introduction- Digging Up the Medicines
“How It Was”: Looking for Native Women’s History
Life Cycle Teachings of the Anishinaabek
Overview of the Book
Chapter 1 - Weaving the Stories
Purpose: Listening for Stories that “Work like Arrows”
Building on Relationships
Responsibilities
Working with the Historian Participants
Michif, Nēhiyawak, Anishinaabek: Locating the Oral Historians
The Times
Introducing the Oral Historian Participants
Chapter 3 - The Life Cycle Begins: From Conception to Walking
Maintaining the Life Line
Family Planning
Pregnancy: A Sacred Time
Birth and the Celebration of New Life
Postnatal Care
Naming the Baby
Caring for Infants
Care for the Spirit
Physical Care
“Walking Out”: The Toddler Years
Conclusion
Chapter 4 - The “Good Life” and the“Fast Life”: Childhood and Youth
The “Good Life”: Nurturing, Discipline, Self-Reliance,and Interdependence
Teaching Discipline and Self-Discipline
Childrearing: “It Takes a Community”
Reciprocity
Uncles and Aunts
Discipline and Self-Discipline
Work
School
The “Fast Life”: Moving into Adolescence
Fasting
Conclusion
Chapter 5 - Adult Years: The Women’s Circle
Entering the Women’s Circle
Food Management and Security
Clothing
Working for Pay
Keepers of Relationships: Collectivism and Kinship
Sexuality, Courting, and Marriage
Conclusion
Chapter 6 - Grandmothers and Elders
General Roles and Responsibilities for the Elder Years
Beginning with the Physical: Aging
Leadership and Governance
Teaching
Managing the Health of the Community
Catching New Life
Closing Life
Conclusion
Conclusion - Bundling the Layers: Building on the Strengths of the Pastto Take Us into the Future
Layer One: The Power of Women and Girls
Layer Two: Connecting the Stories to Life Stage Theory
Layer Three: Contributions to the Health and Well-Being ofNative Communities
Layer Four: Applying Story Medicine, Today, and into the Future
Introduction
Chapter 1: Weaving the Stories
Chapter 2: People and Places
Chapter 3: The Life Cycle Begins
Chapter 4: The “Good Life” and the “Fast Life”
Chapter 5: Adult Years
Chapter 6: Grandmothers and Elders
Conclusion: Bundling the Layers
Bibliography
Index
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