Full Description
A collection of graduate research by Indigenous social work scholars
Stitching Our Stories Together showcases emerging scholars who, by centering their own nations, communities, and individual realities, demonstrate how Indigenous knowledges can challenge settler ideas and myths around pan-Indigeneity.
This collection is bookended with reflections from the scholars' thesis supervisors, who describe their philosophy of mentoring and supporting students through an Indigenous lens, and how their pedagogies embrace the significance of relationality in Indigenous worldviews.
Stitching Our Stories Together points toward a future where Indigenous ways of knowing and being take their rightful place in spaces of higher learning and social work practice—a necessary intervention in a discipline that has historically been complicit in colonialist harm.
Contents
Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction by Catherine Richardson and Jeannine Carrière
1. Supervision and Mentoring: Beyond the Destination
Jeannine Carrière and Catherine Richardson
PART ONE. EMBEDDING CHILD WELFARE RESEARCH INTO INDIGENOUS METHODOLOGIES
2. Researching Culturally Informed Approaches: Supporting Indigenous Youth Aging Out of Ministry Care
Robert Mahikwa
3. A Métis Grandmother's Knowledge: Stories of Grandmother Teachings and Métis Child Welfare in British Columbia
Shelley Lafrance
4. An Inquiry Into the Stories of Indigenous Fathers and Their Paths Into Fatherhood: A Narrative Analysis Conducted With Kwakwaka'wakw Fathers
Tanille Johnston
PART TWO. ARTS-BASED KNOWLEDGES AND PRACTICES
5. centring stories by urban indigiqueers/trans/two-spirit people and indigenous women: on practices of decolonization, collective care, and self-care
mel lefebvre
6. Stitching Ourselves Back Together: Urban Indigenous Women's Experience of Reconnecting with Identity through Beadwork
Shawna Bowler
7. Reconstituting Indigenous Identities through Portraiture and Storytelling: Reclaiming Representation for Indigenous Women and Two-Spirit People
Juliet Mackie
PART THREE. INDIGENOUS BODIES AND MEANING MAKING
8. Dancing My Way Home: Cultural Reclamation Through the Embodiment of the Michif Language
Victoria May
9. Researching Through miyo ohpikinâwasowin (Good Child-Rearing): A Framework for Knowledge Emergence and Transmission
Lindsay DuPré
10. Fat Bodies in Space: Explorations of an Alternate Narrative
N. Katie Webb
Conclusion by Jeannine Carrière and Catherine Richardson
Epilogue
Contributors
