ABSTRACT
The chapter starts from the premise that people telling their own stories is inherently revolutionary, as found in the magic tales recounted over the generations in NL. The tales of Jack speak of class resistance against ogres (employers) and those of Peg Bearskin tell of domestic struggles against witches (relatives). The assumptions within these tales are found in how a family group, permeated with family violence, responded to conferencing. The conference gave the family group the opportunity for narrating their stories and drawing upon their traditional knowledge in making plans on behalf of their relatives. The facets of conferencing are related to each of the four narrative threads of restorative justice presented in the prior chapter, and this chapter shows how their contradictory tensions are eased. Over the course of the conference and its aftermath, the family group resolved tensions through reaching into cultural values on kinship and against class and gendered oppression.
