I Got It From An Elder | Conversations in Healing Language
by Marilyn Iwama , Murdena Marshall , Albert Marshall , Ivar Mendez , Cheryl Bartlett

February 2008 | Poetry | $6.95 CAN | $6.95 US
1554470501 | 9781554470501 | Trade Paper

A poetically shaped collage of conversations about the healing tense in the Mi'kmaq language, and an attempt to integrate indigenous and Western ways of knowing.

Author Biography

Marilyn Iwama is a poet and research fellow at the Institute of Integrative Science and Health, Cape Breton University, Sydney, Nova Scotia.

Murdena Marshall is a Mi'kmaq elder and spiritual leader from Eskasoni First Nation, Nova Scotia, and a manager with 'Knowledge: Education and Cultural Consultant Associates' (KECCA) in Eskasoni, Nova Scotia.

Albert Marshall is a Mi'kmaq elder from Eskasoni First Nation, Nova Scotia, and a manager with 'Knowledge: Education and Cultural Consultant Associates' (KECCA) in Eskasoni, Nova Scotia.

Ivar Mendez is a sculptor, photographer and professor in the Departments of Surgery and Anatomy & Neurobiology at Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia. He is also the chair of the Brain Repair Centre at Dalhousie University, director of the Halifax Neural Transplantation Program, and staff neurosurgeon at the QEII Health Sciences Centre, Halifax, Nova Scotia.

Cheryl Bartlett holds a Canada Research Chair in Integrative Science and is a professor in the Department of Biology at Cape Breton University, Sydney, Nova Scotia.