Seven Aunts Healing In this safe setting the

In this safe setting the author allows the curious young girl ask her grandmother about Kokum's brightly coloured dresses

and the opportunity for Indigenous governmental action to address violence against women

Illustrator Wesley Ballinger

Canada witnessed an explosion in the production of literary works by Aboriginal writers

Seven Aunts Healing In this safe setting theStaci Lola Drouillard is a descendant of the Grand Portage Band of Lake Superior Anishinaabe, and lives and works in her hometown of Grand Marais, Minnesota, on the North Shore of Lake Superior. In Seven Aunts, the aunts were German and English, Anishinaabe and French, born in the north woods and Midwestern farm country. They moved again and again, and they fought for each other when men turned mean, when money ran out, when babiesand there were so