Life Stages and Native Women World War moving and insightful

moving and insightful

and observing adults around them

and Mi'kmaq leaders in the Maritimes handled the volatile situation

a residential school 400 kilometres from her home

This scrapbook of anecdotes

Life Stages and Native Women World War moving and insightfulIn 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