Life Stages and Native Women Humour and Hard Truths in a

and Hard Truths in a Northern City recounts with clarity and honesty the truths surrounding the lives of seven Indigenous teenagers who lost their lives while attending high school in Thunder Bay

No easy answers are offered

The essays explore issues that still reverberate in the study of Indigenous literature: appropriation of voice

McCormack is Associate Professor in the Faculty of Native Studies at the University of Alberta

man-made environment (Introduction)

Life Stages and Native Women Humour and Hard Truths in aIn Life Stages and Native Women, Kim Anderson shares the teachings of fourteen Elders from the Canadian prairies and Ontario to illustrate how different life stages were experienced by Mtis, Cree, and Anishinaabe girls and women during the mid twentieth century. These Elders relate stories about their own lives, the experiences of girls and women of their childhood communities, and customs related to pregnancy, birth, post natal care, infant and child