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Honouring Our Ancestors is a powerful and thought-provoking collection of essays exploring the well-being of takatapui, two-spirit, Maori, and Indigenous LGBTQI+ communities across Aotearoa and Turtle Island (Canada and the United States).

Through rigorous scholarship and deeply personal reflections, contributors examine themes of resistance, reclamation, empowerment, transformation, and healing. Central to the collection is the understanding that Indigenous peoples held healthy and diverse perspectives on gender, sexuality, and identity prior to colonisation — knowledge systems that continue to survive, evolve, and guide communities today.

Inspired by the HONOR Project and Honour Project Aotearoa research initiatives, this collection highlights Kaupapa Maori and Indigenous strengths-based approaches to health and well-being. The essays honour Indigenous languages, sovereignty, and interconnectedness while offering pathways toward healing and decolonisation.

Rich in insight and grounded in lived experience, Honouring Our Ancestors is an essential contribution to Indigenous scholarship, community dialogue, and LGBTQI+ literature.

Key Features:
• Explores takatapui, two-spirit, Maori, and Indigenous LGBTQI+ well-being
• Addresses themes of decolonisation, healing, identity, and empowerment
• Features writers from Aotearoa, Canada, and the United States
• Inspired by major Indigenous health and research projects
• Combines scholarship, lived experience, and Indigenous knowledge systems

Product Details:
• Editors: Alison Green and Leonie Pihama
• Format: Soft Cover
• ISBN: 9781776920730

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