Keeping the campfires going : Native women's activism in urban communities / edited by Susan Applegate Krouse and Heather A. Howard.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Krouse, Susan Applegate, 1955-2010.

Howard-Bobiwash, Heather, 1966-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Indian women--Political activity--United States--History--20th century.

Indian women.

Indian women--Political activity--Canada--History--20th century.

Women political activists--United States--History--20th century.

Women political activists.

Women political activists--Canada--History--20th century.

Community life--United States--History--20th century.

Community life.

Community life--Canada--History--20th century.

City and town life--United States--History--20th century.

City and town life.

City and town life--Canada--History--20th century.

United States--Ethnic relations--History--20th century.

United States.

Canada--Ethnic relations--History--20th century.

Canada.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (232 p.)

Place of Publication:

Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, c2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The essays in this groundbreaking anthology, Keeping the Campfires Going, highlight the accomplishments of and challenges confronting Native women activists in American and Canadian cities. Since World War II, Indigenous women from many communities have stepped forward through organizations, in their families, or by themselves to take action on behalf of the growing number of Native people living in urban areas. This collection recounts and assesses the struggles, successes, and legacies of several of these women in cities across North America, from San Francisco to Toronto, Vancouver to Chica

Contents:

Urban clan mothers : key households in cities / Susan Lobo

Gender and community organization leadership in the Chicago Indian community

Anne Terry Straus and Debra Valentino

Indigenous agendas and activist genders : Chicago's American Indian center, social welfare, and Native American women's urban leadership / Grant Arndt

"Assisting our own" : urban migration, self-governance, and Native women's organizing in Thunder Bay, Ontario, 1972-1989 / Nancy Janovicek

Their spirits live within us : Aboriginal women in downtown eastside Vancouver emerging into visibility / Dara Culhane

"How will I sew my baskets" : women vendors, market art, and incipient political activism in Anchorage, Alaska / Molly Lee

Women's class strategies as activism in Native community building in Toronto, 1950-1975 / Heather A. Howard

Creating change, reclaiming space in postworld War II Seattle : the American Indian women's service league and the Seattle Indian center, 1958-1978 / Mary C. Wright

What came out of the takeovers : women's activism and the Indian community school of Milwaukee / Susan Applegate Krouse

Telling Paula Starr : Native American woman as urban Indian icon / Joan Weibel-Orlando.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786612423802

9781282423800

1282423800

9780803226456

0803226454

OCLC:

593234848