Life Stages and Native Women 2019 Johnston weaves subtle humour with

Johnston weaves subtle humour with gentle satire

Kristina Fagan

has grown up in the settlement of Pond Inlet among the conveniences and tensions of contemporary northern communities - video games and coffee shops but also drugs and alcohol

anthropologist Michael Kew

Life Stages and Native Women 2019 Johnston weaves subtle humour withIn 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