Until Our Hearts Are On the Ground

[Aboriginal Mothering]

"Until Our Hearts Are On the Ground:" Aboriginal Mothering, Oppression, Resistance and Rebirth

edited by Dawn Memee Lavell_Harvard & Jeanette Corbiere Lavell

THIS LANDMARK COLLECTION is comprised of sixteen chapters by writers including Kim Anderson, Joanne Arnott, Cheryl Gosselin, Roxanne Harde, and Rosalyn Ing.

The collection features four sections:

*“Entrance into the Womb: Becoming an Aboriginal Mother”

*“Conceptions and Practices of Aboriginal Mothering”

*“’Big Mother’: The Role of the State in the Performance of Mothering”

*“Literary Representations of Aboriginal Mothering”

Ms. Lavell-Harvard is currently President of the Ontario Native Women’s Association, a full time student currently completing her PhD in Education at UWO, and is the fi rst Aboriginal person ever to receive a Trudeau Scholarship.

Ms. Harvard is also a full time mother of two little girls, Autumn Sky (8 years) and Eva Lillie (two years). Ms. Lavell-Harvard’s research addresses the epidemic of low academic achievement and high drop out rates among Aboriginal populations in Canada.

Jeanette Corbiere Lavell is Ojibway First Nation, and member of the
Wikwemikong Unceded Indian Reserve on Manitoulin Island. In 1970 her marriage resulted in the loss of her rights to membership to her Reserve under the Indian Act. This initiated a three year pursuit to ensure that the rights of Indian women were equal to the rights of Indian men in the Indian Act. Jeannette is one of the primary and founding Board members of: Ontario Native Women’s Organization (ONWA) and Indian Rights for Indian Women Native Women’s Organization of Canada.

Currently, Jeannette teaches Fine Arts and Parenting at Wasse-Abin Wikwemikong High School.
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