Five hundred years of colonization have taken an incalculable toll on the Indigenous peoples of the Americas: substance use disorders and shockingly high rates of depression, diabetes, and other chronic health conditions brought on by genocide and colonial control. With passionate logic and chillingly clear prose, author and educator Suzanne Methot uses history, human development, and her own and others' stories to trace the roots of Indigenous cultural dislocation and community breakdown in an original and provocative examination of the long-term effects of colonization. But all is not lost. Methot also shows how we can come back from this with Indigenous ways of knowing lighting the way.
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- Includes bibliographical references (pages 326-341) and index
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- 971.004/97
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- 23
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- Canadian Electronic Library (Firm),
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- M486 2019eb
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- 1 electronic text (360 pages)
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- Ottawa, Ontario
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Table of Contents
- Front Cover 1
- Spine 2
- Title Page 3
- Copyright 4
- Dedication 5
- Table of Contents 7
- Chapter 1: How Things Work, and Why Stories Matter 9
- Chapter 2: What It Means to Be Colonized 39
- Chapter 3: Becoming Human 70
- Chapter 4: The Angry Indian and a Culture of Blame 96
- Chapter 5: Invisible Roots 132
- Chapter 6: Fractured Narratives 157
- Chapter 7: What the Body Remembers 185
- Chapter 8: Sacred Being 223
- Chapter 9: Recreating the Structure of Belonging 248
- Chapter 10: Killing the Wittigo 274
- Author’s Note 331
- Acknowledgements 332
- Sources 334
- Index 350
- About the Author 369
- Back Cover 370