Dangling in the Glimmer of Hope : Academic Action on Truth and Reconciliation

Table of Contents

• Cover 1
• Halftitle 2
• Tittlepage 4
• Copyright 5
• Land Acknowledgement 6
• In Your Canada—A Thousand and Counting by Garry Gottfriedson 8
• About the Cover Photograph 10
• Table of Contents 12
• List of Poems 14
• List of Figures 15
• List of Tables 16
• Foreword 18
• Introduction 22
• 1 Language and Culture Calls to Action 34
• Returning from School by Garry Gottfriedson 36
• Disrupting Colonial Practices through Indigenous Language Learning and Research by Gloria Ramirez 38
• 2 Health Calls to Action 58
• lessons by Garry Gottfriedson 60
• Grave Concerns by Rod McCormick 62
• A Walk Together by Bernita Wienhold-Leahy 72
• Health Care Practices by Bernita Wienhold-Leahy 76
• 3 Education for Reconciliation Calls to Action 92
• KIRS Curriculum by Garry Gottfriedson 94
• Change Begins with a Whisper by Georgann Cope Watson 96
• 4 Business and Reconciliation Calls to Action 110
• Too Much by Sarah Ladd 112
• Cultural Dissonance: Job Interviewing and Indigenous Candidates by Sarah Ladd 114
• 5 Commemoration Calls to Action 128
• An Unholy Act by Garry Gottfriedson 130
• Debwewin by Victoria Handford 132
• Red Bridge by Victoria Handford 140
• 6 Newcomers to Canada Calls to Action 160
• The Flesh of Ice by Garry Gottfriedson 162
• Encounters by Fred Schaub 164
• Reconciliation and Decolonization: From the Shadows of Settler Shame to the Generosity of an Ethical Relationality by Fred Schaub 170
• Exploring Curriculum as a Lived Experience of Poetic Dwelling in between Place Stories by Patricia Liu Baergen 184
• Afterword by Tina Matthew 208
• Contributors 212
• Appendices 218
• Backcover 234