Stitching Our Stories Together: Journeys Into Indigenous Social Work - Hardcover

by Jeannine Carriere (Editor), Catherine Richardson (Editor)

A collection of graduate research by Indigenous social work scholars
Stitching Our Stories Together showcases emerging scholars who, by centering their own nations, communities, and individual realities, demonstrate how Indigenous knowledges can challenge settler ideas and myths around pan-Indigeneity.
This collection is bookended with reflections from the scholars' thesis supervisors, who describe their philosophy of mentoring and supporting students through an Indigenous lens, and how their pedagogies embrace the significance of relationality in Indigenous worldviews.
Stitching Our Stories Together points toward a future where Indigenous ways of knowing and being take their rightful place in spaces of higher learning and social work practice--a necessary intervention in a discipline that has historically been complicit in colonialist harm.

Author Biography

Jeannine Carriere identifies as Red River Métis and has focused her academic scholarship on Indigenous child and family services. She was formerly a Professor at the School of Social Work at the University of Victoria.
Catherine Richardson is a Métis professor and Director of the Concordia University First Peoples Studies Program. She is a registered clinical counsellor whose research focuses on Indigenous well-being, social service delivery, and recovery from interpersonal and systemic violence.