Maa-ji-taa (We Begin) -- Niinitam (My Turn) Don McCaskill -- 1 Ka-pi-ta-aht di-bah-ji-mo (Don McCaskill Tells His Story) -- 2 Niizhwasso ishkode (Seventh Fire): Political Resistance and Ojibway-Anishinabe Cultural Renewal -- Cultural Renewal of the Seventh Fire: Anishinabe Ways of Doing and Knowing and Nah-nahn-gah-dah-wayn-ji-gay-win (How we came to think this way about our reality) -- The continuance of Resistance and Revival --Residential School System -- Environmental Protests Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls -- Has Resurgence Made a Difference? -- 3 Indigenous Studies: Finding Understanding Through a Transformative Way of Knowing --The Academic Program -- Applied Community Program --Political Advocacy and Outside Pressures -- The Cultural Component --Trent Department Expansion -- Bezhig onaagan gaye bezhig emikwan, biin-di-go-daa-di-win, and naa-wi aki: A Culturally Based Approach to Reconciliation and Indigenizing the Academy -- Challenges -- Moving Forward -- Niinitam (My Turn) Jerry Fontaine -- 4 Makwa Ogimaa di-bah-ji-mo (Jerry Fontaine Shares His Story) -- Ni di-bah-jim (I'll share my story) -- Kay-go-wah-ni-kayn andi-wayn-ji-ahn (Don't ever forget where you come from) -- O-di-ni-gay-win zhigo Nay-nahn-do-jee-kayn-chi-gayd (Digging Around and Doing Research) -- Nah-nahn-gah-dah-wayn-ji-gay-win (How we came to think this way about our reality) -- I-nah-di-zi-win (Our way of being and way of life) Ojibway-anishinabe i-zhi-chi-gay-win zhigo kayn-dah-so-win gemaa a-zhi-kay-ni-mo-nahd-a-di-sid bay-mah-di-sid (Ojibway-Anishinabe ways of doing and knowing or how we used our way of thinking and ceremonies to find answers) -- 5 Gah-wi-zhi maw-ji-say-muh-guhk (The way it happened) -- 6 Ni-noon-dah-wah-min in-way-wahd gi-gay-tay anishinabeg on-ji-ning-gi-kayn-dah-so-min wayn-ji-da ji-ga-gway-dway-wi-nan We hear the voices of our ancestors because we know how to ask the most basic questions) -- Di-bah-ji-mo-win o-nah-ko-nah (To ceremonially call upon the story) Di-bah-ji-mo maa-gi-zhaa gaye mah-zhi-nay-bi -- i-gay (The story is shared and then maybe written) -- Ah-way-chi-gay-win (To teach by telling a story) -- G'gi-zhi-too-min (We're finished) -- Timeline of Events -- Maah-ni-ka-no-tah-gay-win (Interpretation And Glossary) -- Meegwetchiwenimaad (Acknowledgements)