Creating Space : My Life and Work in Indigenous Education.

Cover -- Contents -- List of Photographs -- Acknowledgements -- Foreword -- Preface -- Note on Terminology -- Chapter One: My Family -- Elementary and High School -- Chapter Two: My Teaching Career -- Reedy Creek and Bellhampton -- Going to Normal School -- Fisher River -- Birtle Indian Residential School -- Rossville Indian Residential and Day School in Norway House -- Chapter Three: Beyond Teaching -- Counselling in Winnipeg -- Supervisor of Schools -- Cross-Cultural Education Consultant -- Photo Section 1 -- Chapter Four: Working Provinciallyand Nationally -- Manitoba Indian Brotherhood -- A Year at University -- The National Indian Brotherhood -- Travelling to Israel -- Freelance Consultant -- "Not a Prophet in Your Own Land" -- Chapter Five: The University of British Columbia -- Native Indian Teacher Educaiton Program -- Ts''kel is Born -- The First Nations House of Learning -- Study Tours to Aotearoa (New Zealand) -- Feasibility Study on an Aboriginal Languages Institute -- The First Nations Longhouse -- Chapter Six: Retirement -- Chapter Seven: Leaving Vancouver -- Epilogue: Upon Reflection -- Appendix 1: Awards and Honours -- Appendix 2: Bibliography of Selected Publications -- Books and Book Chapters -- Articles in Journals -- Appendix 3: Archival Collections at the University of British Columbia -- Index.

The life story of Verna J. Kirkness, a Cree woman from Manitoba, whose simple quest to teach "in a Native way," revolutionized Canadian education policy and practice.

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