About the Author

Kim Anderson is a Cree/Metis educator. She is an Associate Professor in Indigenous Studies at Wilfrid Laurier University, Brantford, Canada, and is the author of A Recognition of Being: Reconstructing Native Womanhood, and is the co-editor, with Bonita Lawrence, of Strong Women Stories: Native Vision and Community Survival.

Maria Campbell is a distinguished Metis author, playwright, filmmaker, and Elder. Her works have been published in eight countries and translated into four languages. Her bestselling book, Halfbreed, continues to be taught in schools across Canada.

Reviews

"Life Stages is an accessible text and can serve as a practical empowerment manual for the hearts, minds and lives of Metis, Cree, Ojibway and Saulteaux women and communities. There are lessons to be learned from these stories, from their anecdotes and from their teachings that relate to feminist, inter-generational and inter-gender respect in all anti-patriarchal efforts and movements. This is highly recommended reading."--Deanna Radford "Herizons Magazine"

"Life Stages pulls the reader into engaging with diverse Indigenous worldviews that explore women's roles, responsibilities, and purpose outside of a Western patriarchal framework."--Rebeka Tabobondung "Great Plains Quarterly"

"Anderson has achieved what she set out to do - introduce some cultural knowledge about the roles of women and the idea that some customs can be revived to everyone's benefit. Life Stages and Native Women does not try to take the place of an elder's teachings, but rather leads you in the right direction if you want to know more. If you're interested in a more relaxed and modern look at aboriginal women than you'd find in an introduction to native studies class, you will enjoy this."--Colleen Simard "Winnipeg Free Press"

"Drawn from materials of the oral histories of the Metis, Cree, Anishaabek, or Ojibway and Saulteaux elders, Life Stages and Native Women is presented as the result of digging up medicines, or the teachings. Although the history is indeed clouded with pain and oppression, the message for today is one of hope and rebuilding, along the with empowerment of native people, particularly women, to rebuild the circle of indigenous communities of greater Turtle Island."-- "Midwest Book Review"

"Kim Anderson's book, Life Stages and Native Women, is one I wish my Native mother could have read before she died. It is about the importance of women's roles in Native culture but on a larger scale it is about the importance of the Feminine in holding communities together and the 'medicines' in stories that remind us of our strength."--Melinda Burns, September issue of Off the Shelf (Guelph's The Bookshelf)