Believing that it is important to privilege the voices of Native American women over those of Eurocentric male writers of Native American history, Mann presents four essays that explore issues of Native American history and culture. The major topics include the role of dress and dance in the lifeways of Indians, the need to reconstitute traditional social structures, how the imposition of European culture disempowered Native American women, and the need to repair cultural communication between Native Americans of the east and the west of the Mississippi.

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Daughters of Mother Earth: The Wisdom of Native American Women tells about the recovery of women's traditions, an important theme in the collection of essays in this volume.

Multicultural Review

College-level collections strong in Native American studies will welcome Daughters of Mother Earth: The Wisdom of Native American Women. It goes beyone women's studies alone, maintaining that elements unnatural to Native ways of knowing have been imposed on the study of Native America's elements consisting of European prejudice and male privilege. This focus on women's traditions provides essays which examines Indian lifestyles and history through women's lives and eyes. A fine approach which adds different perspective to Native history and issues.

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