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Janovicek, Nancy – American Indian Quarterly, 2003
This article discusses how Native women in Thunder Bay, Ontario, organized services and programs to help women adapt to urban life in the 1970s and 1980s. It investigates the founding of Beendigen, an emergency hostel for Native women and their children. In 1978, Thunder Bay Anishinabequek, a chapter of the Ontario Native Women's Association…
Descriptors: Family Violence, Females, Canada Natives, Emergency Shelters