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We who walk the seven ways : a memoir / Terra Trevor.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Trevor, Terra, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Trevor, Terra.
- Indian women--California--Biography.
- Indian women.
- Multiracial women--California--Biography.
- Multiracial women.
- Multiracial people--California--Biography.
- Multiracial people.
- Indian women authors--California--Biography.
- Indian women authors.
- Indian authors--California--Biography.
- Indian authors.
- Multiracial women--Race identity--California.
- Multiracial people--Race identity--California.
- Indian women elders (Indigenous leaders)--California.
- Indian women elders (Indigenous leaders).
- Chumash Indians--California--Rites and ceremonies.
- Chumash Indians.
- Chumash Indians--Rites and ceremonies.
- Multiracial people--Race identity.
- California.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- 215 pages ; 22 cm
- Other Title:
- We who walk the 7 ways
- Place of Publication:
- Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2023]
- Summary:
- "We Who Walk the Seven Ways is Terra Trevor's memoir about seeking healing and finding belonging. After a difficult loss, a circle of Native women elders embraced and guided Trevor (Cherokee, Lenape, Seneca, and German) through the seven cycles of life in the indigenous ways. Over three decades, these women lifted her from grief, instructed her in living, and showed her how to age from youth into beauty. With tender honesty, Trevor explores how the end is always a beginning. Her reflections on the deep power of female friendship, on losing a child, reconciling complicated roots, and finding richness in living every stage of life shows that being an American Indian with a complex lineage is not about being part something--it is about being part of something"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: 1. We Who Walk the Seven Ways
- 2. Marie
- 3. Ann
- 4. Irene
- 5. Mary Lou
- 6. Back in Those Days
- 7. Returning the Gift
- 8. The Seven Ways
- 9. The Way of This Daughter
- 10. Undocumented
- 11. Growing Up
- 12. Luke
- 13. Gary
- 14. Leaping into Womanhood
- 15. The Way of This Mother
- 16. Luke and New Mexico on My Mind
- 17. After the First Silent Week
- 18. Just Writing
- 19. Winter of Hope
- 20. The Red Ribbon Bridge
- 21. The Winter the Stars Fell
- 22. Words Facing West
- 23. My Years at the Shelter
- 24. The Winter It Came Back
- 25. With Nothing Ahead but Sky
- 26. Somewhere Southwest of the Middle
- 27. Coming Back to the World
- 28. Pushing Up the Sky
- 29. Growing Old in a Beautiful Way
- 30. Water Chores and Rituals
- 31. The Landscape Will Teach You Who You Are
- 32. Safekeeping
- 33. Reading, Living, and My Books
- 34. The Winter My Grandfather Apologized
- 3. 5. River in the Blood
- 36. Back in Those Days in Oklahoma
- 37. My Mother
- 38. Ann, Wilma, Joy, and Me
- 39. My Relationship with Honesty
- 40. Searching for a Place to Stand
- 41. On the Way Home
- 42. The Indigenous Way of Comprehending
- 43. On the Medicine Trail
- 44. Tangled Thoughts
- 45. Winter Count
- 46. Forty-Five Winters
- 47. Dancing to Remember
- 48. Tomol Evening
- 49. Returning the Gift to the Sea
- 50. Gratitude
- 51. November
- 52. The Harvest Dinner
- 53. Winter of Distance.
- ISBN:
- 9781496235183
- 1496235185
- OCLC:
- 1337142651
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