PDF Erené With Wolf Medicine

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Erené
With
Wolf
Medicine
Description
There are many surprises in this
book.
In Eren233With
Wolf
Medicine Irene I. Blea skillfully introduces us
to her Native American, Chicano, and dominant
cultural experiences. She carries us with her
when she moves from a mountain to rural farm
life, to an industrial city, and produces an
intense memoir about growing up in an
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extended family during an era when women were
expected to fit into prescribed ways of being and
seeing the world. This is also a story about the
complexities of being tri-cultural in a dominant
society that does not frequently validate a young
girl with wolf medicine. Nevertheless, Blea grew
into a woman when People of Color broke out of
the old constrictive ways of being. She
introduces us to the concept of gen237zar and
highlights how she used wolf medicine to navigate
the intersection of race, class gender, and to
define her own life while obtaining academic
positions not normally held by those of her
tri-cultural background. She did this in
employment and as a Chicana poet, scholar, and
feminist in the social justice movements of her
era. Eren233With Wolf Medicine demonstrates how
difficult it was and still is for women to
advance in the face of patriarchal and colonizer
procedures, expectations, ways of thinking, and
doing. One must rely on their inner power to
overcome immense obstacles to redefine their own
life.