We are dancing for you : native feminisms and the revitalization of women's coming-of-age ceremonies / Cutcha Risling Baldy.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Risling Baldy, Cutcha, author.

Series:

Indigenous confluences

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hupa women--Rites and ceremonies.

Hupa women.

Hupa women--Social life and customs.

Hupa women--Social conditions.

Feminism.

Social conditions.

Manners and customs.

Rites and ceremonies.

Hoopa Valley Tribe, California.

Physical Description:

pages cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Seattle : University of Washington Press, 2018.

Summary:

Cutcha Risling Baldy's deeply personal account of the revitalization of the women's coming-of-age ceremony for the Hoopa Valley Tribe--Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction: 'A:diniw A'ydyaw 'A:dit'e:n = We do it, we did it, we are doing it

Dining'xine:wh-mil-na:sa'a:n = Hupa people

with them

it stays, there is a Hupa tradition : oral narratives and native feminisms

Ninis'a-na:ng'a' = The world

Came to be lying there again, the world assumed its present position : California Indian history, genocide, and native women

Wung-xowidilik = Concerning it

what has been told : anthropology and salvage ethnography

Tim-na'me = At the lucky spot she bathes : indiginous menstrual beliefs and the politics of taboo

Xoq'it-ch'iswa:l = On her

they beat time, a Flower Dance is held for her : revitalization of the Hupa women's coming-of-age ceremony.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Other Format:

Online version: Risling Baldy, Cutcha. We are dancing for you.

ISBN:

9780295743431

0295743433

9780295743448

0295743441

OCLC:

1011157633