Activating the Heart is an exploration of storytelling as a tool for knowledge production and sharing to build new connections between people and their histories, environments, and cultural geographies. The collection pays particular attention to the significance of storytelling in Indigenous knowledge frameworks and extends into other ways of knowing in works where scholars have embraced narrative and story as a part of their research approach.

In the first section, Storytelling to Understand, authors draw on both theoretical and empirical work to examine storytelling as...

Being homeless in one s homeland is a colonial legacy for many Indigenous people in settler societies. The construction of Commonwealth nation-states from colonial settler societies depended on the dispossession of Indigenous peoples from their lands. The legacy of that dispossession and related attempts at assimilation that disrupted Indigenous practices, languages, and cultures including patterns of housing and land use can be seen today in the disproportionate number of Indigenous people affected by homelessness in both rural and urban settings.
Essays in this collection explore the...

Through personal accounts and analysis of historical trends, No Home in the Homeland documents the spread of homelessness in the North and what it reveals about colonialism and its legacies and the limitations of existing policies and programs.