Sifters Native American Women's Lives

Name: Sifters Native American Women's Lives
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ISBN: 9780195130812

ISBN-10: 0195130812

ISBN-13: 9780195130812

Edition: 2001

Authors: Theda Perdue

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In this edited volume, Theda Perdue, a nationally known expert on Indian history and southern women's history, offers a rich collection of biographical essays on Native American women. From Pocahontas, a Powhatan woman of the seventeenth century, to Ada Deer, the Menominee woman who headed the Bureau of Indian Affairs in the 1990s, the essays span four centuries. Each one recounts the experiences of women from vastly different cultural traditions--the hunting and gathering of Kumeyaay culture of Delfina Cuero, the pueblo society of San Ildefonso potter Maria Martinez, and the powerful matrilineal kinship system of Molly Brant's Mohawks. Contributors focus on the ways in which different…

Book details

List price: $64.00
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 3/29/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 272
Size: 8.90" wide x 5.79" long x 0.79" tall
Weight: 1.034
Language: English

Theda Perdue is professor of history at the University of North Carolina and author of Cherokee Women.Michael D. Green is professor of American studies at the University of North Carolina and author of The Creeks.



Preface


Contributors


Sifters


Introduction


Notes



The Hostage Who Became Famous


Notes



Creating a New World


Notes



From Clan Mother to Loyalist Chief


Notes



The Making of a Myth


Notes



Cherokee Convert to Christianity


Notes



An Apache Woman Warrior


Notes



Gender and Cultural Mediation


Notes



For the Indian Cause


Notes



The Artful Activism of a Penobscot Performer


Notes



Crafting a Life, Transforming a Community


Notes



A Modern "Mother of the Nation"


Notes



A Native Woman's Life in the Borderlands


Notes



An American Indian Activist


Notes



Champion of Tribal Sovereignty


Notes


Further Reading: In Anthropology, History, and Literature


Index