After being orphaned in a most peculiar way

weighty and provocative in their messages

official transcripts and poetry

she calls us to witness how each living thing is alive I n a conscious world with its own integrity

Adapted by Rebecca Stefoff

A Two-Spirit Journey: The Autobiography of a Lesbian Ojibwa-Cree Elder indigenous thinking After being orphaned in aA Two Spirit Journey is Ma Nee Chacaby's extraordinary account of her life as an Ojibwa Cree lesbian. From her early, often harrowing memories of life and abuse in a remote Ojibwa community riven by poverty and alcoholism, Chacaby s story is one of enduring and ultimately overcoming the social, economic, and health legacies of colonialism. As a child, Chacaby learned spiritual and cultural traditions from her Cree grandmother and trapping, hunting,