Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents vii
3. “Art for Life’s Sake”: Approaches to Indigenous Arts, Health, and Well-Being 1
4. Material Culture, Embodiment, and Well-Being
5. What This Pouch Holds 23
6. Baskets, Birchbark Scrolls, and Maps of Land: Indigenous Making Practices as Oral Historiography 40
7. For Kaydence and Her Cousins: Health and Happiness in Cultural Legacies and Contemporary Contexts 60
8. Community Health and Wellness
9. Stories and Staying Power: Artmaking as (Re)Source of Cultural Resilience and Well-Being for Panniqtumiut 79
10. Healthy Connections: Facilitators’ Perceptions of Programming Linking Arts and Wellness with Indigenous Youth 95
11. Healing Land, Body, and Tradition
12. The Doubleness of Sound in Canada’s Indian Residential Schools 121
13. Kissed by Lightning: Mediating Haudenosaunee Traditional Teachings through Film 147
14. Minobimaadiziwinke(Creating a Good Life): Native Bodies Healing 177
15. Resistance, Resurgence, and “Imagining Otherwise”
16. Body Counts: War, Pesticides, and Queer Spirituality in Cherríe Moraga’s Heroes and Saints 197
17. The Language of Soul and Ceremony 223
18. Sâkihiwâwin: Land’s Overflow into the Space-tial 230
19. Acknowledgements 255
20. Contributors 257
21. Index 265