A Two-Spirit Journey
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A Two-Spirit Journey

The Autobiography of a Lesbian Ojibwa-Cree Elder

  1. 264 pages
  2. English
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A Two-Spirit Journey

The Autobiography of a Lesbian Ojibwa-Cree Elder

About this book

Winner of Canada Reads 2025

From her early, often harrowing memories of life and abuse in a remote Ojibwa community, Ma-Nee Chacaby's extraordinary story is one of enduring and ultimately overcoming the social and economic legacies of colonialism.

As a child, Chacaby learned spiritual and cultural traditions from her Cree grandmother and trapping, hunting, and bush survival skills from her Ojibwa stepfather. She also suffered physical and sexual violence, and in her teen years became an alcoholic herself. At twenty, Chacaby took her children and, fleeing an abusive marriage, moved to Thunder Bay. Despite the abuse, racism, and indifference she often found there, Chacaby marshalled the strength and supports to help herself and others.

Over the following decades, she achieved sobriety, trained and worked as an alcoholism counsellor, raised her children and fostered many others, learned to live with visual impairment, and came out as a lesbian. In 2013, Chacaby led the first gay pride parade in Thunder Bay.

Ma-Nee Chacaby has emerged from hardship grounded in faith, compassion, and humour. Her memoir provides unprecedented insights into the challenges still faced by many Indigenous people.

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Table of contents

  1. ILLUSTRATIONS
  2. A NOTE ON TERMINOLOGY
  3. CHAPTER ONE: MY GRANDMOTHER'S AND MY FAMILY'S HISTORY IN MANITOBA AND ONTARIO (1863-1952)
  4. CHAPTER TWO: FIRST DISCOVERIES, JOYS, AND SORROWS - MY EARLY CHILDHOOD IN OMBABIKA (1952-1958)
  5. CHAPTER THREE: SEASONAL ACTIVITIES, FIRST FRIENDSHIPS, AND THE BEGINNING OF ADDICTION (1958-1960)
  6. CHAPTER FOUR: SCHOOL, TEENAGE FRIENDSHIPS, AND HAVING TWO SPIRITS (1960-1965)
  7. CHAPTER FIVE: LOSING MY GRANDMOTHER AND MOTHER, BECOMING A PARENT, AND SURVIVING AN ABUSIVE MARRIAGE IN AUDEN (1965-1970)
  8. CHAPTER SIX: LIVING AND PARENTING IN THUNDER BAY AND SAULT STE. MARIE BEFORE SOBRIETY (1970-1975)
  9. CHAPTER SEVEN: SOBRIETY AND SINGLE-PARENTING IN THUNDER BAY (1975-1980)
  10. CHAPTER EIGHT: WORKING WITH ADDICTED MOTHERS AND RAISING FOSTER KIDS WITH NATE IN WINNIPEG (1980-1987)
  11. CHAPTER NINE: COMING OUT, FALLING IN LOVE, AND LIVING WITH LEAH IN THUNDER BAY AND BOSTON (1987-1991)
  12. CHAPTER TEN: MEETING GRACE AND BUILDING A LIFE TOGETHER IN KAMINISTIQUIA (1991-2004)
  13. CHAPTER ELEVEN: RECOVERING FROM POST-TRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER AND BECOMING AN ELDER IN THUNDER BAY (2004-2014)
  14. AFTERWORD BY MARY LOUISA PLUMMER
  15. PEOPLE MENTIONED IN THE BOOK
  16. GLOSSARY
  17. BIBLIOGRAPHY