Collective Care Indigenous Motherhood, Family, and HIV/AIDS Humour with a bag full of

with a bag full of paper hearts attached to wood stakes

Off the northern tip of Haida Gwaii

600-kilometre journey by riverboat

and autobiography

we are there with him and many can relate this to their own family life

Collective Care Indigenous Motherhood, Family, and HIV/AIDS Humour with a bag full ofCollective Care provides an ethnographic account of urban Indigenous life and caregiving practices in the face of Saskatchewans HIV epidemic. Based on a five year study conducted in partnership with AIDS Saskatoon, the book focuses on the contrast between Indigenous values of collective kin care and non Indigenous models of intensive maternal care. It explores how women and men negotiate the forces of HIV to render motherhood a site of cultural