Review of Life Stages and Native Women: Memory, Teachings, and Story Medicine by Kim Anderson

• Main Author: Tabobondung, Rebeka
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska - Lincoln 2012
• Subjects: American Studies; Cultural History; History; United States History; Canada; Metis
• Online Access: https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/greatplainsquarterly/2783; https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/context/greatplainsquarterly/article/3805/viewcontent/Tabodondung.pdf

Life Stages and Native Women unearths the vital teachings of fourteen diverse Indigenous elder oral historians who share their knowledge about the life cycle of Native women. From conception to walking, childhood and youth, adult years, to grandmothers and elders, author Kim Anderson weaves the four life stages from a series of oral history interviews conducted over a period of five years beginning in 2007. Cree/Metis elder and master storyteller Maria Campbell guides Anderson on her journey to gain knowledge from a generation of Creel Metis, Cree, Saulteaux, and Ojibwe elders, each of whom holds tightly to the stories of her people amid the severe stresses of colonization from the early to mid-twentieth century in Saskatchewan and Ontario, Canada.