Make a Beautiful Way The Wisdom of Native American Women

Name: Make a Beautiful Way The Wisdom of Native American Women
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ISBN: 9780803260429

ISBN-10: 0803260423

ISBN-13: 9780803260429

Edition: 2008

Authors: Barbara Alice Mann, Winona LaDuke

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Make a Beautiful Wayis nothing less than a new way of looking at history—or more correctly, the reestablishment of a very old way. For too long, Euro-American discourse styles, emphasizing elite male privilege and conceptual linearity, have drowned out democratic and woman-centered Native approaches. Even when myopic western linearity is understood to be at work, analysis of Native American history, society, and culture has still been consistently placed in male custody. The recovery of women’s traditions is the overarching theme in this collection of essays that helps reframe Native issues as properly gendered. nbsp; Paula Gunn Allen looks at Indian lifeways through the many stitches of…

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List price: $14.95
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Publication date: 7/1/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 152
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.02" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 0.440
Language: English

Barbara Alice Mann is a lecturer in the English department at the University of Toledo and the author ofGeorge Washington’s War on Native America. nbsp; Winona LaDuke is a Native American activist and the author ofRecovering the Sacred: The Power of Naming and Claiming.



Foreword


Preface



Does Euro-Think Become Us?




Decolonizing Native Women




Weeping for the Lost Matriarchy




Slow Runners



Bibliography


Contributors' Biographies


Index