awâsis - kinky and dishevelled Mohawk Culture This edition features new photos

This edition features new photos and previously untold stories of the pivotal roles that the women of the Manuel family played – and continue to play – in the battle for Indigenous rights

Maureen Simpkins

was born in the Fort Mojave Indian Village in Needles

But when used as a put-down

awâsis - kinky and dishevelled Mohawk Culture This edition features new photosOpening with an introduction from Elder Maria Campbell, awsis kinky and dishevelled is a force of Indigenous resurgence, resistance, and soul healing laughter. Uncovering the painful facts wrought on her and her people's lives by colonialism, racism, religion, and residential schools, Louise walks us through further raw realities in this book questioning the still powerful destructive forces of colonialism, despite Canada's official, hollow promises