During My Time Florence Edenshaw Davidson, a Haida Woman

Name: During My Time Florence Edenshaw Davidson, a Haida Woman
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ISBN: 9780295971797

ISBN-10: 0295971797

ISBN-13: 9780295971797

Edition: 2nd

Authors: Margaret B. Blackman, Florence Edenshaw Davidson

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This book is the first life history of a Northwest Coast Indian woman. Florence Davidson, daughter of noted Haida carver and chief Charles Edenshaw, was born in 1896. As one of the few living Haida elders knowledgeable bout the culture of a bygone era, she was a fragile link with the past. Living in Masset on the Queen Charlotte Islands, some fifty miles off the northwest coast of British Columbia, Florence Davidson grew up in an era of dramatic change for her people. On of the last Haida women to undergo the traditional puberty seclusion and an arranged marriage, she followed patterns in her life typical of women of her generation.Florence's narrative -- edited by Professor Blackman from…

Book details

List price: $25.00
Edition: 2nd
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Publication date: 6/1/1992
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 228
Size: 5.91" wide x 9.84" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 0.682
Language: English



Preface to the Revised Edition


Preface to the Original Edition


Orthography



The Life History Project



The Haida Woman



Florence Edenshaw Davidson: A Biographical Sketch



Those Before Me (1862-1896)



Before I Could Walk (1896-1897)



I Am Yet a Girl (1897-1909)



I Become a Woman and Marry (1909-1911)



I Become a Mother and Have Lots of Children (1912-1938)



I Quit Having Babies: My Later Years (1939-1979)



Discussion


Epilogue 1992: "One More Time"


Appendix


Bibliography


Index