Michael Hankard
Michael Hankard, PhD is Abenaki/Métis, and Assistant Professor within the Indigenous Studies Department at the University of Sudbury, and author of Access, Clocks, Blocks and Stocks: Resisting Health Canada's Management of Traditional Medicine, and We STILL LIVE HERE: First Nations, Alberta Oil Sands, and Surviving Globalism.
Books (2)
Synopsis:
This book deals with Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls, an extremely painful topic—one that we struggled at times to write or think about, and it raises some painful memories and feelings, not only for us but particularly those whose stories and reflections are within it.
The book includes essays and reflections by both men and women, because it seeks to help bring balance to our collective, equally important and unique, roles and responsibilities. It hopes to incorporate Indigenous knowledge principles about relationships and love in the hope that we can begin to emulate and live our lives in balance. In this circle, we begin in the eastern direction with respect—seeing someone from all sides, and having ‘1,000 cups of tea’ with them; moving into time in the south where we must physically, mentally and spiritually sit and spend time with someone; then to empathy or feeling in the west where our connection to a person is strong enough so we hurt when they are hurting; then finally, into the gift of movement, where caring behaviour in the northern direction drives us to actually do something about it.
Reviews
"It is uncanny how all these writers’ contributions came together in one book. It gives such a comprehensive observation of historical and current systems that create these vulnerabilities. I have to admit, I felt anger rise up in me at all these injustices. This is an important work for anyone in Canada, and will be especially useful to policymakers. Well done! You have just changed the world." - Lorraine Rekmans
"This book is a highly recommended read for persons desiring to hear truth, and to work toward genuine and responsive reconciliation with Indigenous Peoples." - Barbara Waterfall, PhD
Educator Information
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Table of Contents
Foreword
Introduction
1. Colonization, ‘Truth,’ and ‘Reconciliation’ for Indigenous Women and Girls?
By: Kelly M. Bugler, John G. Hansen, & Michael Hankard
2. Taking Me Home: The Life of Mere Hiki
By: Taima Moeke-Pickering
3. Traveling the Spirit Road: Anna Mae Pictou Aquash
By Cynthia Landrum
4. How Are Indigenous Women’s Experiences of Policing and Homelessness Linked to MMIWG?
By: Carol Kauppi & Rebecca Schiff
5. Indigenous Responses to Gendered and Colonial Violence: A View from Baawaating
By: Vivian Jiménez-Estrada &Eva Dabutch
6. Walking the Sweetgrass Road Together
By: Michael Hankard
7. Rites of Passage: Building Strength and Resilience
By: Joey-Lynn Wabie
8. Colonial Exceptionalism and the MMIWG Genocide: Bringing Words of the Silent to the Ears of the Deaf
By: Nawel Hamidi
9. Shinning the Light Into Dark Places: Going Beyond Statistics and Literature Reviews and into the Humanity of MMIWG
By: Sharon L. Acoose, & John E. Charlton
About the Authors
Table 1. Aboriginal Offender Statistics
Graphic 1. Mere Hiki
Additional Information
Pages: 150 | Size: 6” x 9” | Paperback
Synopsis:
Within Turtle Island Indigenous people know that its spiritual centre is the ultimate mover within everything we do and are surrounded by. The Clean Place: Honouring Indigenous Spiritual Roots of Turtle Island illuminates the strong connection Indigenous people have with the land and the importance of a paradigm shift worldwide toward sustainable ways of thinking and being. The voices and perspectives of the writers weave traditional teachings, spirituality, and messages of hope, change, and transformation.
Reviews
"Hankard’s compilation takes us on a journey throughout Turtle Island and beyond, across sacred oceans to the ancestral homelands of our relatives. This journey illuminates a connecting theme of Indigenous existence on, from and with the land as a sacred being. Upon a shared reading of a chapter with my son, it was clear he embodied the teachings within – he was doing his part in maintaining the Clean Place." - Cindy Peltier, PhD, Chair Indigenous Education Nipissing University
Educator Information
Table of Contents
Dedication
Acknowledgement
Gchi-Biimskogaabiwiding
Introduction
Michael Hankard
1. I Still Have the Place
Lorraine Rekmans
2. Unsettling the Clean Place: Beginnings of a Philosophical Reflection
Réal Fillion
3. Giving Thanks for the Light
Ross Hoffman
4. In Place and Time: Indigenous Women’s Re-Weaving and Resistances
Laura Hall
5. The Healing Journey: Spirituality, Cultural Connection and the Significance of Aboriginal Peoples Relationship to the Land
John E. Charlton & John G. Hansen
6. Honouring Papatuanuku: Honouring Mother Earth
Taima Moeke-Pickering
7. Stewards of the Sacred
Cynthia Landrum
8. A Buffalo’s Breath on a Cold Winter Morning
Michael Hankard
9. Wahi Pana: A Hawaiian Sense of Place and Relationship to the Land
Umi Perkins
10. The Land is One with Us, and We are One with the Land: A Personal Journal
Emily Faries
11. Caring for Past/Present/Future Through Anishinabe Photography on the Land
Celeste Pedri-Spade
12. Washed ‘Clean’ in Zimbabwe: The Dzivaguru Creation Story
Collis G. Machoko
13. Reflections on Urban Connections to Land and Ceremony: Uncovering the Virtues of Creativity, Cultural Resiliency, Flexibility and Tenacity
Barbara Waterfall
14. Biinidsa: Going Home to Clean Up
Kevin FitzMaurice
Epilogue: Clean Water in the ‘Clean Place’?
Maurice Switzer
About the Authors
Additional Information
251 pages | 6.00" x 9.00"
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