Joyce Dillen
Joyce Dillen is an Elder of the Serpent River First Nation in northeastern Ontario. For the past 30 years she has been conducting cedar baths, training apprentices and holding workshops and seminars on wellness and traditional healing methods. She has served as a traditional resource person for many wellness programs over the years including the Naandwe Noojmowin program that is offered through Mamaweswen, the North Shore Tribal Council’s N’Mninoeyaa Aboriginal Health Access Centre, based on the Serpent River First Nation. She is a frequent invited guest speaker for Indigenous programs at Laurentian University and the University of Sudbury.
Books (1)
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
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