Indigenous peoples -- Mental health -- Canada, Mental Health, Adult child abuse victims -- Mental health -- Canada, Adult child abuse victims -- Canada, Adult child abuse victims, Healing, Resilience (Personality trait), Ojibwa, Residential Schools, Residential school survivors, Indigenous peoples -- Canada -- Residential schools 

"Mnidoo Bemaasing Bemaadiziwin is a twenty-five year research and community based book. It brings forward Indigenous thought, history, and acts of resistance as viewed through the survivors of residential school who through certain aspects of their young lives were able to persevere, and share their life experiences, teaching us about them, and their understanding of their own resiliency. Through their voices, we hear how they found strength within their own life force energy, or mnidoo bemaasing bemaadiziwin, and survived and thrived in spite of aggressive assimilation. It became clear to Dr. Turmell that in their descriptions of resiliency, readers were describing mnidoo bemaasing bemaadiziwin an innate and holistic energy that can be found within everyone. Mnidoo bemaasing bemaadiziwin manifests within all of our relations: land, animals, plants, ancestors, and other people, and cannot be extinguished but can be severely dampened as was evident in the attempt to assimilate residential school students. From their accounts, we learn that students found ways to nurture their life force energy through relationships and acts of resistance. As they've continued on their life path, they have reclaimed their spirit and today, they are telling their stories and keeping this history alive for the benefit of future generations."--Provided by publisher. 

290 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm. 

Contents:
Dedication
Acknowledgements
Glossary
List of abbreviations
Foreward / Dr. Kathy Absolon
Accepting the life journey
Chapter 1: Anishinaabe thought: The bones and the bedrock "Kanan miinwaa nbagani- aasmaabkong"
Chapter 2: The work process: Relationship and knowledge "Nokiiwin e-zhimaajiihkag: Wiijikiiwendiwin miininwaa kendaaswin"
Chapter 3: Our past matters "Gaa-bi-zhewebak gchi-zhaazhe gchi-piitendaagwaad"
Chapter 4: Understanding life force energy "Nsastamowin mnidoo bemaasing bemaadiziwin"
Chapter 5: "The taken" Arrival and life at the school
Chapter 6: "The knowing" Youth and the roots of resistance
Chapter 7: "The transition" Young adults and returning home
Chapter 8: "The transformation" Survivors as knowledge holders
Chapter 9: The path of life continues.
Index
References
Bio.