Killing the Wittigo: Indigenous Culture-Based Approaches to Waking Up, Taking Action, and Doing the Work of Healing
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    [year] => 2023
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    [synopsis] => An unflinching reimagining of Legacy: Trauma, Story, and Indigenous Healing for young adults		
	Written specifically for young adults, reluctant readers, and literacy learners, Killing the Wittigo explains the traumatic effects of colonization on Indigenous people and communities and how trauma alters an individual's brain, body, and behavior. It explores how learned patterns of behavior - the ways people adapt to trauma to survive - are passed down within family systems, thereby affecting the functioning of entire communities. The book foregrounds Indigenous resilience through song lyrics and as-told-to stories by young people who have started their own journeys of decolonization, healing, and change. It also details the transformative work being done in urban and on-reserve communities through community-led projects and Indigenous-run institutions and community agencies. These stories offer concrete examples of the ways in which Indigenous peoples and communities are capable of healing in small and big ways - and they challenge readers to consider what the dominant society must do to create systemic change. Full of bold graphics and illustration, Killing the Wittigo is a much-needed resource for Indigenous kids and the people who love them and work with them.				 			Killing the Wittigo explains the traumatic effects of colonization on young Indigenous people. Includes reflection questions and activities in each chapter to encourage mindfulness and emotional regulation, help build reader self-awareness about wellness and self-care, and what it will take to stop the cycle of intergenerational trauma.		 			
	Suzanne Methot is the author of Legacy: Trauma, Story, and Indigenous Healing. She has worked in adult literacy and skills-training, as a museum educator, and as a teacher, creating a classroom program for Indigenous students experiencing intergenerational trauma. Born in Vancouver and raised in Peace River, Alberta, Suzanne is Nehiyaw of mixed Indigenous and European heritage. She lives on Gabriola Island, B.C., on the unceded territory of the Snuneymuxw Nation.				 			
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•	PRACTICAL STRATEGIES: This book is blunt and realistic, and every chapter includes strategies for reclaiming health and wellness within an anti-oppression/decolonial framework. 

		
•	THE RIGHT AUTHOR FOR THE BOOK: Suzanne Methot has been working with Indigenous people/families/children/youth for 30 years. Her contributions include:

		

		
•	Harm reduction and other services to people experiencing homelessness and street-involved youth as a volunteer with Anishnawbe Health Street Patrol
•	Support to on-reserve Community Health Representatives in over 40 reserve communities across Ontario and the facilitation of a province-wide community consultation on long-term care in on-reserve communities while working with the Union of Ontario Indians (now the Anishinabek Nation)
•	Support for individuals and families at West Neighbourhood House, Native Women's Resource Centre of Toronto, YWCA Elm Centre, and the Toronto District School Board
•	Contributing to the ROM's Indigenous Advisory Circle for six years
•	Sitting on the Parkdale Queen West community health centre board of directors
•	Involvement in community-led projects that blended Indigenous cultural approaches with western approaches (such as Ontario Native Literacy Coalition's Native Literacy Planning Process while at Native Women's Resource Centre of Toronto)
•	Helping develop a culture-based curriculum framework for urban Indigenous learners while seconded to the First Nations Adult Education Project (joint project between the Native Canadian Centre, Native Women's Resource Centre, and the then-Toronto Board of Education)

		

		

		
•	YOUTUBE CONTENT: Suzanne is starting a YouTube interview series with leaders in systemic and institutional change, including museum educator Wendy Ng, anthropologist Craig
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    [subtitle] => Indigenous Culture-Based Approaches to Waking Up, Taking Action, and Doing the Work of Healing
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