A Two-Spirit Journey: The Autobiography of a Lesbian Ojibwa-Cree Elder (Critical Studies in Native History)

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A Two-Spirit Journey is Ma-Nee Chacaby’s ordinary account of her life as an Ojibwa-Cree lesbian. From her early, incessantly harrowing memories of life and abuse in a remote Ojibwa community riven by poverty and alcoholism, Chacaby’s story is one in every of enduring and in the long run overcoming the social, economic, and health legacies of colonialism.
As a child, Chacaby learned spiritual and cultural traditions from her Cree grandmother and trapping, hunting, and bush survival skills from her Ojibwa stepfather. She also suffered physical and sexual abuse by different adults, and by her teen years she was once alcoholic herself. At twenty, Chacaby moved to Thunder Bay along with her children to flee an abusive marriage. Abuse, compounded by racism, continued, but Chacaby found supports to lend a hand herself and others. Over the next decades, she achieved sobriety; trained and worked as an alcoholism counselor; raised her children and fostered many others; learned to live with visual impairment; and came out as a lesbian. In 2013, Chacaby led the primary gay pride parade in her adopted city, Thunder Bay, Ontario.
Ma-Nee Chacaby has emerged from hardship grounded in faith, compassion, humor, and resilience. Her memoir provides unprecedented insights into the challenges still faced by many Indigenous people.

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