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Medicine, Education, and the Arts in Contemporary Native America
Strong Women, Resilient Nations
Medicine, Education, and the Arts in Contemporary Native America
Strong Women, Resilient Nations
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This book offers twenty original scholarly chapters featuring historical and biographical analyses of Native American women. The lives of women found her contributed significantly to their people and people everywhere. The book presents Native women of action and accomplishments in many areas of life. This work highlights women during the modern era of American history, countering past stereotypes of Native women. With the exceptions of Pocahontas and Sacajawea, historians have had little to say about American Indian women who have played key roles in the history of their tribes, their relationship with others, and the history of the United States. Indigenous women featured herein distinguished themselves as fiction and non-fiction writers, poets, potters, basket makers, musicians, and dancers. Other women contributed as notable educators and women working in health and medicine. They are representative of many women within the Native Universe who excelled in their lives to enrich the American experience.
Table of Contents
Introduction
Chapter 1 American Artist, Pueblo Potter: Maria Antonia Montoya Martinez (?-1980) by Emily Molesworth-Teipe
Chapter 2 A Bridge Between Worlds: Mourning Dove (c. 1888 – d. 1936) by Amanda K. Wixon
Chapter 3 Premier Basket Artist: Elsie Comanche Allen (b. 1899 – d. 1990) by Meranda Roberts
Chapter 4 Dancing Activist: Maria Tallchief (b. 1925 – d. 2013) by Michelle Lorimer
Chapter 5 Native Woman, Native Voices: Paula Gunn Allen (b. 1939 – d. 2008) by Hal Hoffman and Clifford E. Trafzer
Chapter 6 Poet Warrior: Joy Harjo (b. 1951-) by Christie Time Firtha
Chapter 7 Civil Justice: Louise Erdrich (b. 1954-) by Christie Time Firtha
Chapter 8 The Voice of a Generation: Indigenous Singer-Songwriter, Actor, Activist and Icon, Buffy Sainte-Marie (b. 1941 -) by Kimberly Norris Guererro
Chapter 9 A Woman of Vision: Vivienne Jake by Daisy Ocampo
Chapter 10 Mary Jim Chapman (Xínstanik): Preserving the Memory of Snake River Country (c. 1910 – 2000) by Benjamin T. Jenkins
Chapter 11 Cultural
Product details
| Published | Feb 25 2022 |
|---|---|
| Format | Hardback |
| Edition | 1st |
| Extent | 224 |
| ISBN | 9781666907025 |
| Imprint | Lexington Books |
| Dimensions | 227 x 160 mm |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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