On Wholeness: Anishinaabe Pathways to Embodiment and Collective Liberation [Paperback]

A brilliant exploration embodied wholeness as a pathway to our collective liberation

Through reflections on childbirth, parenting, creative practice, and expansive responsibility, Anishinaabe visual artist Quill Christie-Peters explores how reconnecting with the body can be an act of resistance and healing. She shows that wholenessdespite pain and displacementis not just possible but essential for liberation, not only for Indigenous people but for all of us.

In poetic and raw storytelling, Quill shares her own experiences of gendered violence and her fathers survival of residential school, revealing how colonialism disconnects us from ourselves. Yet, through an Anishinaabe lens, the body is more than just fleshit extends to ancestors, homelands, spirit relations, and animal kin.

This fierce and enlightening book reimagines the way we understand settler colonialismthrough the body itself.?On Wholeness?takes us on a journey that begins before birth, in a realm where ancestors and spirits swirl like smoke in the great beyond.?

Quill Christie-Peters demonstrates with wisdom and love that we can imagine and enact a world beyond the depravities of the colonial present. Billy-Ray Belcourt, author of?Coexistence?and?A Minor Chorus

An emotional and spiritual journey of liberatory embodiment. Wanda Nanibush, Anishinaabe?writer/curator

Quill Christie-Peters voice is vital, and the messages that spill out of?this?book are timely reminders of what it means to be whole, to be connected to land and others, and to be alive.?Helen Knott, author of?Becoming a Matriarch

An embodied voyage through Anishinaabe culture, wisdom, and storytelling & A must-read. C?line Semaan, Slow Factory

Intense and unforgettable. The Miramichi Reader

A vital, much-needed book as wlã×