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Winnipeg writer Katherine Martens interviewed 26 women from the Mennonite community in southern Manitoba, ranging in age from 22 to 88 years old. They had many different backgrounds, but they all had one important characteristic: all were mothers.In the course of these interviews, Martens was searching for answers to questions that affected her both as a Mennonite and as a woman. How did they feel when they learned of the pregnancy? How did they choose home or hospital birth? How did the traditions of the Mennonite culture affect them as wives and mothers? As they talked, many spoke about the joys and trials of giving birth, and they also told Martens stories about other parts of their lives...
Healing Haunted Histories tackles the oldest and deepest injustices on the North American continent. Violations which inhabit every intersection of settler and Indigenous worlds, past and present. Wounds inextricably woven into the fabric of our personal and political lives. And it argues we can heal those wounds through the inward and outward journey of decolonization. The authors write as, and for, settlers on this journey, exploring the places, peoples, and spirits that have formed (and deformed) us. They look at issues of Indigenous justice and settler “response-ability” through the lens of Elaine’s Mennonite family narrative, tracing Landlines, Bloodlines, and Songlines like a bra...
Gerhard Goertzen was born in 1837 at the Furstenland Mennonite colony in southern Russia, and married Helena Reddekop. They immigrated in 1875 to Chortitz, Manitoba. He married widow Katharina (Kippenstein) Banmam in 1906, and died in 1916. Some descendants later immigrated to Mexico, to Bolivia, and to Paraguay.
Peter Johann Teichroeb (1829-1898) married Justina Wolf (1834-1915?) in about 1851. They had five known children. The family lived in Georgstal in the Mennonite Colony of Fuerstenland, Russia. In about 1876 they immigrated to Manitoba, Canada. Descendants and relatives lived in Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Ontario, Alberta and elswhere.
This dynamic Handbook unpacks the entanglements between the two notions of home and migration, which illuminate the lived experiences of (in)voluntary mobilities and the contested terrain of inclusion and belonging. Drawing on cross-disciplinary contributions from leading international scholars, it advances research on the social study of home in relation to migration, refugee, displacement, and diaspora studies. This title contains one or more Open Access chapters.
This book examines the intergenerational transmission of traumatic memories of the dictatorship in the aftermath of the two first decades since the Uruguayan dictatorship of 1973-1984 in the broader context of public policies of denial and institutionalized impunity. Transitional justice studies have tended to focus on countries like Argentina or Chile in the Southern Cone of Latin America. However, not much research has been conducted on the "silent" cases of transitions as a result of negotiated pacts. The literature on memory trauma and impunity has much to offer to studies of transition and post-authoritarianism. This book situates the human and cultural experience of state terrorism fro...
Making Believe responds to a remarkable flowering of art by Mennonites in Canada. After the publication of his first novel in 1962, Rudy Wiebe was the only identifiable Mennonite literary writer in the country. Beginning in the 1970s, the numbers grew rapidly and now include writers Patrick Friesen, Sandra Birdsell, Di Brandt, Sarah Klassen, Armin Wiebe, David Bergen, Miriam Toews, Carrie Snyder, Casey Plett, and many more. A similar renaissance is evident in the visual arts (including artists Gathie Falk, Wanda Koop, and Aganetha Dyck) and in music (including composers Randolph Peters, Carol Ann Weaver, and Stephanie Martin). Confronted with an embarrassment of riches that resist survey, Ma...
William Teft Bly was born 20 Jan 1812 in Norway, Herkimer County, New York to William Bly and Isabella Tefft. He studied for the ministry at Madison Literary and Theological Seminary and preached in Michigan, Indiana, Illinois and Minnesota. He married Elizabeth Rose (Miller) Bly, born 26 Sep 1822 in Ohio to Reverend Adam Miller and Sara Prior, 5 May 1839. They moved to Minnesota in 1853. William died 12 June 1897 and is buried at Etna Cemetery near Spring Valley, Minnesota. They were the parents of ten children. Descendants have lived in Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan, Iowa, Ohio, Illinois, California, Oregon and elsewhere in the United States.