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Indigenous women's social and political work in Kanata's west
Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Indigenous Place Names -- Introduction: "Doing What Needed to Be Done": Indigenous Women's Responsibilities and Leadership -- PART I Organizing across the West -- Introduction -- 1 "To Take an Active Role"1: Indigenous Women's Early Mobilizing -- 2 "Our Banners Were up Big Time"1: Indigenous Women's Provincial Organizing -- PART II Organizing across Boundaries -- Introduction -- 3 Creating a National Movement -- 4 "Our Shared Struggles": Indigenous Women's Rights and Transracial Coalition-Building during International Women's Year, 1975 -- PART III Concerning Children's Care: Childcare Activism -- Introduction -- 5 "A Crying Need for a Day Care Centre": Indigenous-Run Day Cares, 1967-1985 -- 6 Case Study: The Saskatchewan Native Women's Movement and Day Cares in Kisiskâciwan -- 7 "The Crying Need for Indian Foster Homes"1: Indigenous Women Challenge State Child Welfare Practices -- 8 Case Study: The VANWS Foster Care Project and the Splatsín te Secwépemc By-Law for the Care of Our Indian Children -- PART IV Indigenous Women Respond to Crisis -- Introduction -- 9 "It's Something We've Just Got to Begin to Do Ourselves": Beginning the Indigenous Women's Shelter Movement in Kanata's West -- 10 Case Study: "They Were So against Us": The Saskatchewan Native Women's Movement and Battered Women's Shelters -- 11 Coming Home: Creating Halfway Houses for Indigenous Women -- Conclusion: Caring for Community: Indigenous Women's Impact -- Appendix 1: Biographical Information -- Appendix 2: Resource and Support Centres, 1973-1979 -- Appendix 3: Homemakers' Clubs in Kanata's West -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press, 2025