Native women's history in eastern North America before 1900 : a guide to research and writing / edited by Rebecca Kugel and Lucy Eldersveld Murphy.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kugel, Rebecca.

Murphy, Lucy Eldersveld, 1953-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Indian women--East (U.S.)--History--Sources.

Indian women.

Indian women activists--East (U.S.)--History--Sources.

Indian women activists.

Indian women civic leaders--East (U.S.)--History--Sources.

Indian women civic leaders.

Indian women in literature.

History.

Genre:

Sources.

Physical Description:

xxxvi, 467 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2007]

Contents:

Introduction: Searching for cornfields

and sugar groves / Rebecca Kugel and Lucy Eldersveld Murphy

The Pocahontas perplex : the image of Indian women in American culture / Rayna Green

The "squaw drudge" : a prime index of savagism / David D. Smits

Indian women as cultural mediators / Clara Sue Kidwell

Woman as centre and symbol in the emergence of Métis communities / Jennifer S.H. Brown

Women's status in egalitarian society : implications for social evolution / Eleanor Burke Leacock, with a new introduction by Christine Ward Gailey

Blood ties and blasphemy : American Indian women and the problem of history / Kathryn W. Shanley

Coocoochee : Mohawk medicine woman / Helen Hornbeck Tanner

Leadership within the women's community : Susie Bonga Wright of the Leech Lake Ojibwe / Rebecca Kugel

Marie Rouensa-8canic8e and the foundations of French Illinois / Carl J. Ekberg

Women, kin, and Catholicism : new perspectives on the fur trade / Susan Sleeper-Smith

Cherokee women and the Trail of Tears / Theda Perdue

The rise or fall of Iroquois women / Nancy Shoemaker

"Divorced" from the land : resistance and survival of Indian women in eighteenth-century New England / Jean M. O'Brien

To live among us : accommodation, gender, and conflict in the western Great Lakes region, 1760-1832 / Lucy Eldersveld Murphy

Mountain Wolf Woman, sister of Crashing Thunder : the autobiography of a Winnebago Indian / edited by Nancy Oestreich Lurie

Beyond domesticity : Choctaw women negotiating the tension between choctaw culture and Protestantism / Michelene E. Pesantubbee.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9780803227798

0803227795

9780803278318

0803278314

OCLC:

123766981

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