ISBN:
9781666907025
,
9781666907049
Language:
English
Pages:
xi, 211 Seiten
,
23 cm
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Medicine, education, and the arts in contemporary Native America
DDC:
305.48897
Keywords:
Indian women / United States / Biography
;
Indians of North America / United States / Biography
;
Femmes des Peuples autochtones / États-Unis / Biographies
;
Indian women
;
Indians of North America
;
United States
;
Biography
;
Biographies
;
Biographies
;
Biographies
Abstract:
"This book highlights indigenous American women throughout modern American history, countering past stereotypes by offering twenty original scholarly chapters featuring historical and biographical analyses of Native American women who excelled in education, health, medicine, and the arts"--
Note:
American artist, pueblo potter : Maria Antonia Montoya Martinez (?-1980)
,
A bridge between worlds : Mourning Dove (c. 1888-d. 1936)
,
Premier basket artist : Elsie Comanche Allen (b. 1899-d. 1990)
,
Dancing activist : Maria Tallchief (b. 1925-d. 2013)
,
Native woman, native voices : Paula Gunn Allen (b. 1939-d. 2008)
,
Poet warrior : Joy Harjo (b. 1951-)
,
Civil justice: Louise Erdrich (b. 1954-)
,
The voice of a generation : indigenous singer-songwriter, actor, activist and icon, Buffy Sainte-Marie (b. 1941-)
,
A woman of vision : Vivienne Jake (b. 1939-d. 2016)
,
Preserving the memory of Snake River Country : Mary Jim Chapman (Xínstanik) (b. 1910-d. 2000)
,
Cultural historian, linguist, and ethnobotanist : Katherine Siva Saubel (b. 1920-d. 2011)
,
Community, educational, and cultural activist : Lorene Sisquoc (b. 1960-)
,
Desegregating the last frontier : Elizabeth Wanamaker Peratrovich (1911-1958)
,
Preserving indigenous cultures and languages : Ofelia Zepeda (b. 1952-)
,
Public historian and sustainability activist : Roberta Conner (Sisaawipam) (b. 1955-)
,
Public health reformer : Susan La Flesche (b. 1865-d. 1915)
,
Navajo health activist and educator : Annie Dodge Wauneka (b. 1910-d. 1997)
,
Activism through medicine : Lori Alvord (b. 1958-)
,
Remembering what we always knew : Kahnawake community-based activist Terry Maresca, M.D. (b. 1958-)
,
Activist centered healthcare : Beverly Patchell (b. 1951-)
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