Awards

• Short-listed for 2021 New England Book Awards - Nonfiction 2021 (United States)
• Short-listed for Foreword INDIES 2021 Finalist for Multicultural 2022 (United States)

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Author:   Shirley N. Hager ,  Mawopiyane
Publisher:   University of Toronto Press
Imprint:   Aevo UTP
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.60cm
Weight:   0.380kg
ISBN:  

9781487545888

ISBN 10:   1487545886
Pages:   277
Publication Date:   10 March 2022
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Table of Contents

Foreword With Gratitude Notes on Terminology Introduction Gathering The Talking Circle Miigam’agan Wayne Gwen Dana Alma Barb gkisedtanamoogk Shirley H. Debbie Shirley B. Wesley Marilyn Betty JoAnn The Last Gathering The Decision Hindsight The Gatherings: May 1987 to May 1993 Creating This Book The Giveaway Blanket The Circle and Ceremony The Circle and Decision Making Ceremony: Protect or Share It? Allies, Friends, Family Beginnings The Women Compare Notes The Relationship Evolves Mutuality How We Got Here The Doctrine of Discovery But What about the Treaties? The Personal Is Political Economic Self-Determination Beginning to Make Amends Some Progress ... and a Long Way to Go How It Could Be Different Being Here Legitimately Acknowledging First Peoples/Honoring the Treaties An Indigenous Worldview The Need for Gathering Spaces Creating a Gathering Space Working Together on a Cause Humility versus “White Guilt” Non-Natives Working with Our Own People Entering the Longhouse Being in the Relationship: An Afterword by Dr. Frances Hancock Appendix: How This Book Came to Be Notes Suggested Resources Contributors Map: Location of the Gatherings Reader’s Guide Index

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The Gatherings is an unusual book in the powerful authenticity of feeling it expresses. -- Dana White * OFF RADAR, centralmaine.com * The Gatherings: Reimaging Indigenous-Settler Relations offers eye-opening information that is beautifully tied together with thought-provoking and insightful stories from individuals who have initiated the work that needs to be done to end the fragile relationships between Indigenous peoples and settlers. -- Carly Smith * Cloud Lake Literary * Calling themselves collectively 'Mawopiyane,' a Passamaquoddy word meaning 'let us sit together,' they spent several years piecing together this simply framed, but profoundly encouraging book. -- Dana Wilde, National Book Critics Circle * <em>The Working Waterfront</em> * The Gatherings: Reimaging Indigenous-Settler Relations offers eye-opening information that is beautifully tied together with thought-provoking and insightful stories from individuals who have initiated the work that needs to be done to end the fragile relationships between Indigenous peoples and settlers. -- Carly Smith * <em>Cloud Lake Literary</em> *

The Gatherings is an unusual book in the powerful authenticity of feeling it expresses. -- Dana White * OFF RADAR, centralmaine.com * The Gatherings: Reimaging Indigenous-Settler Relations offers eye-opening information that is beautifully tied together with thought-provoking and insightful stories from individuals who have initiated the work that needs to be done to end the fragile relationships between Indigenous peoples and settlers. -- Carly Smith * Cloud Lake Literary *

The Gatherings is an unusual book in the powerful authenticity of feeling it expresses. -- Dana White * OFF RADAR, centralmaine.com * The Gatherings: Reimaging Indigenous-Settler Relations offers eye-opening information that is beautifully tied together with thought-provoking and insightful stories from individuals who have initiated the work that needs to be done to end the fragile relationships between Indigenous peoples and settlers. -- Carly Smith * Cloud Lake Literary * Calling themselves collectively Mawopiyane, a Passamaquoddy word meaning let us sit together, they spent several years piecing together this simply framed, but profoundly encouraging book. -- Dana Wilde, National Book Critics Circle * <em>The Working Waterfront</em> * The Gatherings: Reimaging Indigenous-Settler Relations offers eye-opening information that is beautifully tied together with thought-provoking and insightful stories from individuals who have initiated the work that needs to be done to end the fragile relationships between Indigenous peoples and settlers. -- Carly Smith * <em>Cloud Lake Literary</em> *

Author Information

Shirley N. Hager is a retired associate professor with the University of Maine Cooperative Extension. Currently, she serves with the Friends (Quaker) Committee on Maine Public Policy and chairs its Committee on Tribal-State Relations. Mawopiyane is a name chosen to describe the full group of co-authors. It means, in Passamaquoddy, “let us sit together.”

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