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Killing the Wittigo : Indigenous culture-based approaches to waking up, taking action, and doing the work of healing : a book for young adults

Methot, Suzanne

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Summary: "An unflinching reimagining of Legacy: Trauma, Story, and Indigenous Healing for young adults. Written specifically for young adults, reluctant readers, and literacy learners, Killing the Wittigo explains the traumatic effects of colonization on Indigenous people and communities and how trauma alters an individual's brain, body, and behavior. It explores how learned patterns of behavior -- the...

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Publisher / Publication Date: ECW Press 2023

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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 362.1089 MET

A mind spread out on the ground

Elliott, Alicia

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Summary: "The Mohawk phrase for depression can be roughly translated to "a mind spread out on the ground." In this urgent and visceral work, Alicia Elliott explores how apt a description that is for the ongoing effects of personal, intergenerational, and colonial traumas she and so many Native people have experienced. Elliott's deeply personal writing details a life spent between Indigenous and white...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Melville House 2020

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ELLIOTT, ALICIA ELL

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