Indigenous women -- Canada -- Social conditions, Indigenous women, Women in community development -- Canada, Women in community development, Community Development -- Canada, Community Development 

"This collection of seventeen essays presents original and critical perspectives from writers, scholars and activists on issues that are pertinent to Aboriginal women and their communities in both rural and urban settings in Canada. Their contributions explore the critical issues facing Native women as they rebuild and revive their communities. Through topics such as the role of tradition, reclaiming identities and protecting Native children and the environment, they identify the restraints that shape their actions and the inspirations that feed their visions.

The contributors address issues of youth, health and sexual identity; women's aging, sexuality, and health; caring for children and adults living with Fetal Alchohol Syndrome; First Nations education and schooling; community-based activism on issues of prostitution and street workers; and reclaiming cultural identity through art and music.

About the Editors: Kim Anderson (Cree/Metis) is a writer and educator who works in social and health policy development as a researcher/writer for Aboriginal organizations in Ontario. Bonita Lawrence (Mi'kmaw) is Assistant Professor at Atkinson College School of Social Sciences, York University."--Amazon. 

264 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm. 

Contents:
Where the spirits live : women rebuilding a non-status M̕i'kmaq community / Gertie Mai Muise --
The drum keeps beating : recovering a Mohawk identity / Laura Schwager --
From the stories that women tell : the Métis Women's Circle / Carole Leclair and Lynn Nicholson with Métis Elder Elize Hartley --
The eagle has landed : native women, leadership and community development / Sylvia Maracle --
Strong spirit, fractured identity : an Ojibway adoptee's journey to wholeness / Shandra Spears --
Tribal feminism is a drum song / Rosanna Deerchild --
She no speaks and other colonial constructs of "the traditional woman" / Dawn Martin-Hill --
Approaching the fourth mountain : native women and the ageing process / Bonita Lawrence --
Arts and letters club : two-spirited women artists and social change / Nancy Cooper --
The healing power of women's voices / Zainab Amadahy --
Aboriginal Women's Action Network / Fay Blaney --
Vital signs : reading colonialism in contemporary adolescent family planning / Kim Anderson --
Creating a community-based school / Jean Knockwood --
Fetal Alcohol Syndrome : the teachers among us / Rebecca Martell --
From victims to leaders : activism against violence towards women / Cyndy Baskin --
The truth about us : living in the aftermath of the Ipperwash Crisis / Shelly E. Bressette --
Coming full circle : a young man's perspective on building gender equity in aboriginal communities / Carl Fernández.

Includes bibliography.