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An interdisciplinary volume that explores Indigenous women's environmental knowledge and how that knowledge is often marginalized by ethnocentric research paradigms and legal processes that focus on male economic interactions with the environment.
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Acknowledgements
Introduction: Indigenous Women and Knowledge - IsabelAltamirano-Jiménez and Nathalie Kermoal
1 Distortion and Healing: Finding Balance and a "GoodMind" Through the Rearticulation of Sky Woman's Journey -Kahente Horn-Miller
2 Double Consciousness and Cree Perspectives: Reclaiming IndigenousWomen's Knowledge - Shalene Jobin Vandervelde
3 Naskapi Women: Words, Narratives, and Knowledge - Carole Lévesque,Denise Geoffroy, and Geneviève Polèse
4 Mapping, Knowledge, and Gender in the Atlantic Coast of Nicaragua- Isabel Altamirano-Jiménez and Leanna Parker
5 Métis Women's Environmental Knowledge and the Recognition ofMétis Rights - Nathalie Kermoal
6 Community-Based Research and Métis Women's Knowledge inNorthwest Saskatchewan - Kathy L. Hodgson Smith and NathalieKermoal
7 Gender and the Social Dimensions of Changing Caribou Populationsin the Western Arctic - Brenda Parlee and Kristine Wray
8 "This Is the Life": Women's Harvesting, Fishing,and Food Security in Paulatuuq, Northwest Territories - Zoe Todd
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About the author
Nathalie Kermoal is of Breton descent (a peoplewhose territory is situated on the West coast of France). She is aprofessor as well as the Associate Dean Academic at the Faculty ofNative Studies at the University of Alberta. She is a bilingualspecialist (French and English) in Canadian history and morespecifically in Métis history.
IsabelAltamirano-Jiménez is Zapotec from the TehuantepecIsthmus, Mexico. She holds a joint appointment as Associate Professorin the Department of Political Science and the Faculty of NativeStudies at the University of Alberta.
Contributors: Isabel Altamirano-Jiménez, DeniseGeoffroy, Kathy L. Hodgson - Smith, Kahente Horn-Miller, ShaleneJobin, Nathalie Kermoal, Carole Lévesque, Leanna Parker, Brenda Parlee,Geneviève Polèse, Zoe Todd, Kristine Wray.
Summary
An interdisciplinary volume that explores Indigenous women's environmental knowledge and how that knowledge is often marginalized by ethnocentric research paradigms and legal processes that focus on male economic interactions with the environment.
