Acknowledgments

We are grateful for the generous support of the Human Rights Education and Multiculturalism Fund and the Faculty of Native Studies at the University of Alberta, as well as for the participants’ contributions.

We would like to extend a special thank-you to the three anonymous readers of the manuscript for their insightful comments and to Nicole Lugosi and Kristine Wray for their diligence and hard work in coordinating this project and preparing the final text. Thank you also to Naomi McIlwraith and J. D. Crookshank for the work they did in editing an earlier version of the manuscript as well as to the editors of Athabasca University Press for their diligent editorial work. And thank you to Christi Belcourt for giving us the authorization to use her amazing artwork on the cover of this book.

We are immensely grateful to you all.