Life Stages and Native Women 2019 and interviews with contemporary Inuit

and interviews with contemporary Inuit

Ross Annett Award for Children’s Literature

Johnston weaves subtle humour with gentle satire

Nabigon begins the text with a brief introduction that explains the use of the hollow tree metaphor that appears in the title and throughout the book

The collection includes essays by Tomson Highway

Life Stages and Native Women 2019 and interviews with contemporary InuitIn Life Stages and Native Women, Kim Anderson shares the teachings of fourteen Elders from the Canadian prairies and Ontario to illustrate how different life stages were experienced by Mtis, Cree, and Anishinaabe girls and women during the mid twentieth century. These Elders relate stories about their own lives, the experiences of girls and women of their childhood communities, and customs related to pregnancy, birth, post natal care, infant and child