A Two-Spirit Journey: The Autobiography of a Lesbian Ojibwa-Cree Elder Decolonization Illustrations by University of Manitoba

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

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

a discriminatory music business

and with a foreword by Suzanne Luke

A Two-Spirit Journey: The Autobiography of a Lesbian Ojibwa-Cree Elder Decolonization Illustrations by University of ManitobaA 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