A Two-Spirit Journey: The Autobiography of a Lesbian Ojibwa-Cree Elder Decolonization Honor Beat Woman

Honor Beat Woman

and with a foreword by Suzanne Luke

Violette has to leave her loving home living with her grandma and attend a foreign institution run by nuns who insist on only speaking English and attending chapel daily

Illustrations by University of Manitoba graduate Irene Kuziw are in soft pencil crayons

Leslie begins to understand and enjoys the colourful lights as they run across the night sky

A Two-Spirit Journey: The Autobiography of a Lesbian Ojibwa-Cree Elder Decolonization Honor Beat WomanA Two Spirit Journey is Ma Nee Chacabys extraordinary account of her life as an Ojibwa Cree lesbian. Ma Nee Chacaby was raised by her Cree grandmother in a remote Ojibwa community near Lake Nipigon, Ontario. From her early, often harrowing memories of life and abuse in a remote Ojibwa community riven by poverty and alcoholism, Chacabys story is one of enduring and ultimately overcoming the social, economic, and health legacies of colonialism. As a