Around the Kitchen Table : Métis Aunties' Scholarship

Table of Contents

• Cover 1
• Contents 6
• Foreword 10
• The Work of Métis Women: An Introduction 18
• Part One: Identity 22
• Chapter 1. Brown Names 24
• Chapter 2. We Know Ourselves 29
• Chapter 3. Kaa-waakohtoochik: The Ones Who Are Related to Each Other 32
• Chapter 4. The Roots Always Remain: Reconnecting to Our Communities in the Twenty-First Century 45
• Chapter 5. For the Love of Place—Not Just Any Place: Selected Metis Writings 56
• Chapter 6. Coming Home through Métis Research 64
• Chapter 7. Valuing Métis Identity in the Prairies through a “5 R” Lens: Our Digital Storytelling Journey 74
• Chapter 8. Prenatal/Postpartum Ceremonies and Parenting as Michif Self-Determination 86
• Chapter 9. Medicine Women 101
• Chapter 10. Lii Michif 104
• Chapter 11. Water Has No Flag 108
• Part Two: Women in the Academy 114
• Chapter 12. Métis Women’s Contributions to the Academy despite Colonial Patriarchy 116
• Chapter 13. Connecting to Our Ancestors through Archaeology: Stories of Three Métis Women Academics 129
• Chapter 14. Métis Women Educating in the Academy 139
• Chapter 15. Structural and Lateral Violence toward Metis Women in the Academy 153
• Part Three: Research Methodology 166
• Chapter 16. Métis Research and Relationality: Auntie Governance, the Visiting Way, and Kitchen Table Reflections 168
• Chapter 17. Lii Taab di Faam Michif/Métis Women’s Kitchen Table: Practising Our Sovereignty 186
• Chapter 18. Wahkotowin: An Approach to Indigenous (Land-Based) Education 200
• Chapter 19. Kaa-natoonamaan taanshi chi-ishi-natoonikeeyaan: My Search for How to Research Things (in a Queer Métis Paradigm) 213
• Chapter 20. Differentiating Métis Feminism 217
• Chapter 21. Celebrating the Wisdom of Our Métis Matriarchs: Sewing Our Wellness All Together—Kood Toot Aansamb 229
• Chapter 22. if the land could speak 248
• Bibliography 264
• Contributors 292