Memoir

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Title & Subtitle	Abstract	Contributors	Pages	Year	Purchase
How We Go Home Voices from Indigenous North America	In myriad ways, each narrator’s life has been shaped by loss, injustice, and resilience—and by the struggle of how to share space with settler nations whose essential aim is to take …		344		View
From Introduction From: How We Go Home View Fernwood Publishing	Sinclair states her intentions for the project How We Go Home to offer oral histories of living Indigenous peoples in Canada and the United States and how her personal experiences have shaped her …	Sara Sinclair	9	2020	$0.90 Add
From James Favel, Winnipeg, Peguis First Nation “You’re a stakeholder because you’ve got to walk these streets every day.” From: How We Go Home View Fernwood Publishing	James Favel, of Winnipeg, Manitoba, is of the Peguis First Nation. He describes his childhood in Winnipeg and his reaching out to his father as teenager, and reconnecting with his culture. He …	Sara Sinclair	19	2020	$1.90 Add
From Jasilyn Charger, Cheyenne River Sioux “My son’s buried by the river. . . . I vowed to him that he’s going to be safe, that no oil was going to touch him.” From: How We Go Home View Fernwood Publishing	Jasilyn Charger of the Cheyenne River Sioux, shares her story of her childhood with her family and moving in and out of foster homes and mental health facilities. She then became involved in the …	Sara Sinclair	22	2020	$2.20 Add
From Marian Naranjo, Santa Clara Pueblo “Indigenous peoples’ reason for being is to be the caretakers of the air, the water, the land, and each other.” From: How We Go Home View Fernwood Publishing	Marian Naranjo, of Santa Clara Pueblo, is the founder of Honor Our Pueblo Existence. She shares about the challenges the Pueblo people have had in working to steward their land in the face of …	Sara Sinclair	17	2020	$1.70 Add
From Robert Ornelas, New York City, Lipan Apache / Ysleta del Sur Pueblo “A part of the soul sickness for me was being ashamed. . . . What we were being taught about Indians was so minimal and so negative.” From: How We Go Home View Fernwood Publishing	Robert Ornelas, who lives in New York City, and is of the Lipan Apache / Ysleta del Sur Pueblo, is a retired substance abuse counselor. He shares how he understood and felt about being native as …	Sara Sinclair	17	2020	$1.70 Add
From Vera Styres, Six Nations of the Grand River, Mohawk/Tuscarora “I was a ‘scabby, dirty little Indian.’” From: How We Go Home View Fernwood Publishing	Vera Styres is of the Six Nations of the Grand River and she is of Mohawk/Tuscarora descent. She is a retired social worker. She speaks of her childhood in residential schools, and of coming to …	Sara Sinclair	20	2020	$2.00 Add
From Wizipan Little Elk, Rosebud Lakota “On the reservation, you have the beauty of the culture and our traditional knowledge contrasted with the reality of poverty.” From: How We Go Home View Fernwood Publishing	Wizipan Little Elk, who is Rosebud Lakota, tells his story. He is the Executive Director of the Rosebud Economic Development Corporation, where he manages development projects to create jobs for …	Sara Sinclair	22	2020	$2.20 Add