Torn from our midst : voices of grief, healing and action from the Missing Indigenous Women Conference, 2008
Record details
- ISBN: 0889772231
- ISBN: 9780889772236 (softcover)
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Physical Description:
xiii, 287 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm + 1 computer disc in pocket (4 3/4 in.)
print - Publisher: Regina : Canadian Plains Research Center, [2010]
- Copyright: ©2010
Content descriptions
General Note: | New Sept 2014. Papers from the conference, "Missing Women: Decolonization, Third Wave Feminisms, and Indigenous People of Canada and Mexico," held in Regina, Saskatchewan in August 2008. |
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | A blessing / Elder Betty McKenna -- The journey from awareness to a conference to a book...and beyond / A. Brenda Anderson -- Hands / Brittany Matthews -- Women missing, missing women / Pastor Cheryl Toth -- The significance of sacred space: Reflections upon conversations with elder Norma-Jean Byrd and pastor Cheryl Toth / Chelsea Millman -- Family stories: The story of the disappearance of Sylvia Arce / Eva Arce -- The story of the disappearance of Maria Agrario Flores / Paula Flores -- Sisters in spirit -- The story of the disappearance of Daleen Kay Bosse (Muskego) / Pauline and Herb Muskego -- Wicanhpi Dura Win/Red star woman: Amber Redman's story / Gwenda Yuzicappi -- The violent erasure of women: A message from amnesty international / Gordon Barnes -- Political realities: The effect of globalization on Indigenous women / Kim Erno -- From genocide to femicide: An ongoing history of terror, hate, and apathy / Leonzo Barreno -- The construction of Aboriginal identity: A healing journey / Carrie Bourassa -- Missing out and missing: Connecting the economic and political phenomenon of disappearance / Ian Peach and Kiera Ladner -- Presentation of the provincial partnership committee on missing persons / Betty Ann Pottruff -- Resisting with all the sense: Art and activism: Missing and taken / Elizabeth Matheson -- Bison Sentinels: A living memorial to murdered and missing Aboriginal women / Adrian Stimson -- Patching our stories together: The conference quilt / Jessica Greyeyes -- Missing women art exhibit / Charlotte Hawk -- She is not forgotten: The healing walk / Alexis J. Johnston -- Carrying the messages from the missing women / Senator Lillian Dyck -- Organizational resistance: Action from within: Media: A Canadian response / Carol Schick -- "She was not into drugs and partying. She was a wife and mother": Media representations and (re)presentations of Daleen Kay Bosse (Muskego) / Holly A. McKenzie -- Reflections of a Northern Saskatchewan journalist / Darla Read -- Inheriting what lives on: The "terrible gift" of Sarah de Vries's poetry / Amber Dean -- Women of Juárez / Lourdes Portillo -- Perspectives from the Regina police service / Michelle Solomon -- An academic role in activism / Cynthia Bejarano -- The sisters in spirit initiative: Native women's association of Canada / Judy Hughes -- Self-care and the healing journey: Resolve to end violence in our society / Mary Hampton, Wendee Kubik, Darlene Juschka, Carrie Bourassa, and Meghan Woods -- Two-fold participation: Dialogue with self... heartbeat of Mother Earth... / Lori Campbell -- Kamāmakos: The woman who wouldn't fly away / Chelsea Millman -- Activism as healing: People before profit / Ernesta Vileitaite-Wright -- Networking and strategizing: Common themes from conference participants / Wendee Kubik -- Appendix A: Conference handout: Summary of provincial partnership committee on missing persons -- Appendix B: Bibliography of useful resources -- Contributors -- Index. |
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