Description
Book SynopsisThrough personal accounts and analysis of historical trends, No Home in the Homeland documents the spread of homelessness in the North, what it reveals about colonialism and its legacies, and the limitations of existing policies and programs.
Trade ReviewWithin the stories [included in the book] lie accounts of home seeking that paint an important picture of agency, Indigenous home, and the ways that many Indigenous lives are unrecognized and unsupported through dominant social policy approaches. A key strength of the book is that it challenges southern, urban, and non-Indigenous peoples to face what Christensen terms “the discomfort of positionality,” and to not turn away from the spiritual homelessness of Dene people… Summing Up: Recommended.
-- G. Bruyere, University College of the North * CHOICE *
No Home in a Homeland represents a significant, unique, and timely contribution to the literature on homelessness experienced by Indigenous people in the Canadian North.
-- Michael G. Young, Royal Roads University * ARTIC, Vol. 71, No.2 *
Table of ContentsIntroduction
1 “Homelessness” Is an Outside Word: Understanding Indigenous Homelessness
2 Before Contact My Ancestors Travelled Constantly: Mapping Uneven Geographies of Settlement, Development, and Opportunity
3 Never Felt at Home: Pathways to Homelessness
4 It’s So Easy to Burn Your Bridges around Here: The Policy Landscape of Housing and Employment
5 They Want a Different Life: Rural-Urban Movements and Home Seeking
6 Our Home, Our Way of Life: Home, Homeland, and Spiritual Homelessness
Conclusion
Notes; Bibliography; Index
