Activating the Heart

Julia Christensen is a geographer and creative writer born and raised in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, on the ancestral homelands of the Yellowknives Dene First Nation. She holds a Canada Research Chair in Northern Governance and Public Policy at Memorial University. She was previously a Trudeau Foundation Scholar.Christopher Cox is an assistant professor of Indigenous and Minority Language Issues in the School of Linguistics and Language Studies at Carleton University. His research focuses on issues in language documentation, education, and revitalization, and he has been involved with community language programs in western and northern Canada for the past twenty years.Lisa Szabo-Jones, a photographer and Trudeau Foundation Scholar, holds a PhD from the University of Alberta and teaches literature at John Abbott College. She is co-editor of Sustaining the West: Cultural Responses to Canadian Environments (WLU Press, 2015).

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgementsIntroduction / Julia Christensen, Christopher Cox, and Lisa Szabo-JonesSection One: Storytelling to UnderstandChapter OneFinding My Way: Emotions and Ethics in Community-Based Action Research with Indigenous Communities / Leonie SandercockChapter TwoNotes from the Underbridge / Christine Stewart and Jacquie LeggattChapter ThreeRe-valuing Code-Switching: Lessons from Kaska Narrative Performances / Patrick MooreSection Two: Storytelling to ShareChapter FourArt, Heart, and Health: Experiences from Northern British Columbia / Kendra Mitchell-Foster and Sarah de LeeuwChapter Five""Grandson, / this is meat"": Hunting Metonymy in François Mandeville's This Is What They Say / Jasmine SpencerSection Three: Storytelling to CreateChapter Sixsleepless in Somba K'e / Rita WongChapter SevenOld Rawhide Died / Bren KolsonChapter EightMétis Storytelling across Time and Space: Situating the Personal and Academic Self between Homelands / Zoe ToddConclusion / Julia Christensen, Christopher Cox, and Lisa Szabo-JonesReferencesAbout the ContributorsIndex