Circle Works inspires educators, philosophers, researchers, activists, shamans,
artists and visionaries to take up the challenge of bringing alternative teaching
possibilities and strategies to the educational experience. Creatively combining
Aboriginal teachings with feminist and anti-racist theory and practice, Dr.
Graveline documents her daily lived experience as a teacher/healer/activist.
This is her 'give away:' the seeds of a very old way made new. Take up her
challenge; plant the seeds of change. Watch yourself and others grow and renew
social relationships.



About the Cover
A symbol of transformation, the horned snake teaches us the duality of positive
and negative energies - spiraling within and without. Diamond-backed with the
four colours of the four races she sits upon Mother Earth, whom we rely on
for subsistence. Amethyst crystal and Rainbow light heals and protects, while
the fiery flames provide the catalyst for change.






HEALING WOUNDED HEARTS brings together stories, poems and
artwork that illustrates the struggles and strengths the Fyre Jean has, as
a Métis Woman, living every day in intersecting, parallel, sometimes
colliding, socio-cultural realities. Baring her Heart and Soul, she shares
personal, painful, spiritual discoveries of how life and worlds work,
through Stories that have grown her into who she is. Through a blend of
original research, reflective journals and creative use of dialog, people
places, times, events, beings come alive. Simultaneously Traditional and
Experimental, Factual and Fictional, her word choice and placement
foreground questions of Authority, Power and Privilege. Fyre Jean is a
wordsmith who bends and shapes languages, to make Truth, to
Transform, to Move herself and her readers from one Place, Condition,
Reality, to another.

HEALING WOUNDED HEARTS is a process, a flow, a Journey. When you
open this book, you open a Doorway to Healing. Be prepared to
experience her worlds - personal and political, academic and artistic,
humorous and tragic. You will be enlightened, inspired, moved, surprised
into new ways of Seeing, Believing, Being. A must read for social justice
activists, academics, artists, helpers and those on a Healing Journey.



 Both books are available at Fernwood Publishing under Aboriginal Studies.

Other publications by Fyre Jean Graveline include:

Wonder Learns Women's Ways. Atlantis Vol.29. No. 2. 2004.

What Part of No Don't You Understand. American Indian Quarterly, Special Issue: Native Student and Faculty Experiences in the Ivory Tower, Vol. 27, No. 1 &2, 2004.

Teaching Tradition Teaches Us. Canadian Journal of Native Education, Theme Issue: Exemplary Indigenous Education, Summer 2002.

Everyday Discrimination: We know how and when, but never why. In Women in the Canadian Academic Tundra: The Trails, Trials and Triumphs. Vethamany-Globus, Rosen and Paul (eds.) Gill-Queens University Press, Winter 2002.

Book Review: Into the Daylight: A Wholistic Approach to Healing. by Calvin Morrisseau (University of Toronto Press, 1998). Canadian Journal of Native Studies, Fall 2001.

Imagine My Surprise: Smudge Teaches Holistic Lessons. Canadian Journal of Native Education, Special Issue: Sharing Aboriginal Knowledge and Aboriginal Ways of Knowing, Vol. 25, No. 1, 6-17. 2001.

Circle as Methodology: Enacting an Aboriginal Paradigm. International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education. Special Issue: Through our Own Eyes & In Our Own Words. Vol. 13, No. 4, 361-370. 2000.

Lived Experiences of an Aboriginal Feminist Transforming the Curriculum. In Experiencing Difference. Carl E. James (ed.) Fernwood: Halifax. 2000.

Trickster Teaches About Backlash: Doing Means Being Done to. Atlantis. Fall, Vol. 24.1, 1999.

Ph.D. Thesis Complete: Circle as Pedagogy: Aboriginal Tradition Enacted in a University Classroom. March, 1996. Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia.

Lived Experiences of an Aboriginal Feminist Transforming the Curriculum. Canadian Woman Studies 14 (2): 52-55, 1994.

Networking in Northern Manitoba. Co-authored with K. Fitzpatrick and B. Mark in Women and Social Change, eds. Jeri Wine and Janice Ristock. University of Toronto Press, 1990.

Threats to Rural Women's Well-being: A Group Response in Women and Well-Being. edited by Vanaja Dhruvarajan. McGill-Queen's University Press: Montreal, 1990.

Publications by Michele Graveline:
Reinventing our Eco-relationship as Natural World, within the Medicine Wheel. Master of Arts in Education Thesis, 2008. Mount Saint Vincent University, Bedford, Nova Scotia.

Several contributions on holistic health and plant medicine to Herbalist Association of Nova Scotia newsletter and website, and the Nova Scotia Capital Health Community Connections.




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