Maria Campbell

A rare and inspiring guide to the health and well-being of Aboriginal women and their communities. The process of “digging up medicines” - of rediscovering the stories of the past - serves as a powerful healing force in the decolonization and recovery of Aboriginal communities. In 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 Metis, 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 care, puberty rites, gender and age-specific work roles, the distinct roles of post-menopausal women, and women's roles in managing death. Through these teachings, we learn how evolving responsibilities from infancy to adulthood shaped women's identities and place within Indigenous society, and were integral to the health and well-being of their communities. By understanding how healthy communities were created in the past, Anderson explains how this traditional knowledge can be applied toward rebuilding healthy Indigenous communities today.

A rare and inspiring guide to the health and well-being of Aboriginal women and their communities. The process of “digging up medicines” - of rediscovering the stories of the past - serves as a powerful healing force in the decolonization and recovery of Aboriginal communities. In 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 Metis, 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 care, puberty rites, gender and age-specific work roles, the distinct roles of post-menopausal women, and women’s roles in managing death. Through these teachings, we learn how evolving responsibilities from infancy to adulthood shaped women’s identities and place within Indigenous society, and were integral to the health and well-being of their communities. By understanding how healthy communities were created in the past, Anderson explains how this traditional knowledge can be applied toward rebuilding healthy Indigenous communities today.

lev e sur une r serve routi re de la Couronne dans le nord de la Saskatchewan, Maria Campbell est une enfant sensible et d termin e qui, malgr la grande pr carit ambiante, s' merveille devant le quotidien anim de sa communaut . Apr s le d c s de sa m re, elle se marie un Blanc afin d'offrir une vie meilleure ses fr res et soeurs, mais choue plut t dans les bas-fonds de Vancouver, o elle conna t la prostitution, la d pendance et la d pression. Inspir e par sa Cheechum, elle s'engage alors sur la voie de la gu rison, et dans une qu te de reconnaissance et de dignit qu'elle partage avec toute une g n ration de M tis. Avec Halfbreed, Maria Campbell expose, sans fard et dans une langue directe, la pauvret , l'exclusion, la honte et le racisme h rit s du colonialisme, et livre un t moignage puissant sur la r silience de son peuple. L'ouvrage comprend un passage relatant le viol de Maria Campbell par un agent de la GRC qui avait t expurg de l' dition originale avant d' tre r tabli, en 2019, dans la r dition parue chez McClelland & Stewart. Cette traduction fran aise est le fruit d'une collaboration entre l'artiste wendat Charles Bender, qui l'on doit notamment la version fran aise de la pi ce L o le sang se m le, de Kevin Loring, et Jean Marc Dalp , prolifique homme de th tre, crivain, traducteur et collaborateur de longue date de la maison.

I alla tider har människor tvingats fly från det outhärdliga mot något annat, kanske bättre. Så är det i dag och så var det för den unga kvinna som med sina barn en vinterdag år 1529 gav sig iväg mot det okända. I drömmen har hon fått veta att någon väntar där långt borta. När döden hinner ifatt henne finns drömmen kvar som en bild och en vision hos hennes tioåriga son Johannes. På hans axlar vilar löftet till henne att ta hand om sin lillasyster Malin. Tillsammans fortsätter barnen vandringen genom ett Sverige med fogdar och överhet, människor som stänger sin dörr för det främmande och där det vimlar av rovdjur i skogarna och hunger och köld är ständiga föreslagare Johannes lyckas liksom många av dagens gatubarn överleva i en grym verklighet genom sin påhittighet och intelligens. Min namne Johannes är en berättelse om längtan och hopp. Där speglas också de motsättningar och den vånda som säkert fanns hos människor som i ett slag tvingas lämna en Gudstro för en annan. De frågar sig hur det är möjligt att Madonnan och helgonen plötsligt inte längre är värda någonting.

A new, fully restored edition of the essential Canadian classic. An unflinchingly honest memoir of her experience as a M tis woman in Canada, Maria Campbell's Halfbreed depicts the realities that she endured and, above all, overcame. Maria was born in Northern Saskatchewan, her father the grandson of a Scottish businessman and M tis woman--a niece of Gabriel Dumont whose family fought alongside Riel and Dumont in the 1885 Rebellion; her mother the daughter of a Cree woman and French-American man. This extraordinary account, originally published in 1973, bravely explores the poverty, oppression, alcoholism, addiction, and tragedy Maria endured throughout her childhood and into her early adult life, underscored by living in the margins of a country pervaded by hatred, discrimination, and mistrust. Laced with spare moments of love and joy, this is a memoir of family ties and finding an identity in a heritage that is neither wholly Indigenous or Anglo; of strength and resilience; of indominatable spirit. This edition of Halfbreed includes a new introduction written by Indigenous (M tis) scholar Dr. Kim Anderson detailing the extraordinary work that Maria has been doing since its original publication 46 years ago, and an afterword by the author looking at what has changed, and also what has not, for Indigenous people in Canada today. Restored are the recently discovered missing pages from the original text of this groundbreaking and significant work.

Join Khloe Koala in her world of imagination, learn about her family traditions and have fun with Christmas Activities.

Khloe Koala en su mundo de imaginacion, aprende sobre sus tradiciones y actividades de Navidad.

Khloe Koala y sus adventuras. Explora el mundo de inventar.

Join Khloe Koala on her adventures. Explore the world of imagination.

What does it mean to be Metis? How do the Metis understand their world, and how do family, community, and location shape their consciousness? Such questions inform this collection of essays on the northwestern North American people of mixed European and Native ancestry who emerged in the seventeenth century as a distinct culture. Volume editors Nicole St-Onge, Carolyn Podruchny, and Brenda Macdougall go beyond the concern with race and ethnicity that takes center stage in most discussions of Metis culture to offer new ways of thinking about Metis identity. Geography, mobility, and family have always defined Metis culture and society. The Metis world spanned the better part of a continent, and a major theme of Contours of a People is the Metis conception of geography - not only how Metis people used their environments but how they gave meaning to place and developed connections to multiple landscapes. Their geographic familiarity, physical and social mobility, and maintenance of family ties across time and space appear to have evolved in connection with the fur trade and other commercial endeavors. These efforts, and the cultural practices that emerged from them, have contributed to a sense of community and the nationalist sentiment felt by many Metis today. Writing about a wide geographic area, the contributors consider issues ranging from Metis rights under Canadian law and how the Library of Congress categorizes Metis scholarship to the role of women in maintaining economic and social networks. The authors' emphasis on geography and its power in shaping identity will influence and enlighten Canadian and American scholars across a variety of disciplines.

Han är gammal nu greve Per Brahe, Herre till Wisingsborgs Grevskap och grundare av staden Brahe-Grenna. Han har tre år kvar att leva, orken tryter och där finns ingen kvar av hans egna, att lämna över det gagneliga värvet till. Den ståtlige bondsonen Olof Fornander har några år tidigare kommit tillbaka från prästseminariet i Åbo och tillträtt sitt gäll i Brahe-Grenna. Han är en lisa för den gamle som tog hand om honom som späd och lät honom studera. Men Olof vill gå sina egna vägar och hans leksyster från barnaåren Marike Voss, numera krögerska på Tavernan Två Liljor, är hans förtrogna. Hon hoppas på något mer från hans sida men ingenting blir som hon tänkt sig. Berättelsen fick sin utgångspunkt i en grav över en Olof Fornander på Gränna kyrkogård och en skylt med texten Två Liljor över en port till ett hus vid Bergsgatan i Gränna. Somligt är sant och somligt fantasi. En del av de människor som flimrar förbi i historien har funnits, andra inte. En del av dem har tilldelats mindre smickrande karaktärer som t ex Julius Kemmener, ej att förväxla med den verklige Julius Kemmerer som säkert inte var så grym, liksom inte heller Johan Werner. Men några ondsinta figurer kan behövas för balansen i en berättelse. Maria Campbell är journalist och har tidigare givit ut en dokumentär roman om kyrkomålaren Johan Risberg i Västergötland.