Trying to Get It Back: Indigenous Women, Education and Culture examines aspects of the lives of six women from three generations of two indigenous families. Their combined memories, experiences and aspirations cover the entire twentieth century. The first family, Pearl McKenzie, Pauline Coulthard and Charlene Tree, are a mother, daughter and granddaughter of the Adnyamathanha people of the Flinders Ranges in South Australia. The second family consists of Bernie Sound, her niece Valerie Bourne and Valerie's daughter, Brandi McLeod-Sechelt women from British Columbia, Canada. They talk to Gillian Weiss about their memories of childhood, informal learning and schooling, their experience and changing aspirations in raising their own children and educating them in both their traditional and the dominant cultures. They also talk to each other via video conferencing, sharing their personal experience and those of their peoples as colonized nations, and they discuss their current positions as they fight to reclaim, regain and revitalize their traditional cultures. The education of their own peoples as well as the dominant societies is something they see as crucial for their futures; it is a path that they feel has already achieved some success. They document the difficulties, the pain, but also the triumphs of growing up in Western societies. The narratives are in their own words, speaking directly to the reader and allowing analysis and interpretation at multiple levels. They are prefaced by a brief history of the two peoples and set between a methodological Foreword and a summative Afterword by Gillian Weiss.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Wilfrid Laurier University Press
ISBN-10
0889203784
ISBN-13
9780889203785
eBay Product ID (ePID)
94935525
Product Key Features
Author
Gillian Weiss
Publication Name
Trying to Get It Back: Indigenous Women, Education and Culture
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Subject
Zoology, Gender Studies / Gay & Lesbian Studies, History
Publication Year
2000
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
347 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
228mm
Item Width
152mm
Item Weight
552g
Additional Product Features
Country/Region of Manufacture
Canada
Editor
Gillian Weiss
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