Upon her shoulders : Southeastern Native women share their stories of justice, spirit, and community / Mary Ann Jacobs, Cherry Maynor Beasley, Ulrike Wiethaus, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Jacobs, Mary Ann, 1963- editor.

Beasley, Cherry Maynor, 1951- editor.

Wiethaus, Ulrike, editor.

Rosengarten Family Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Indian women--Southern States--Biography.

Indian women.

Indian women--Southern States--Social conditions--21st century.

American literature--Women authors.

American literature.

American literature--Indian authors.

Literature, Modern--21st century.

Literature, Modern.

Poetry, Modern--21st century.

Poetry, Modern.

Indian women--Social conditions.

Southern States.

Genre:

poetry.

Autobiographies.

Biographies.

Poetry.

Physical Description:

xxiii, 178 pages ; 18 cm

Place of Publication:

Durham, North Carolina : Blair, [2022]

Summary:

"This book documents the autobiographical stories and poems of Southeastern American Indian women whose hard work and daily fight to keep their communities well and safe is all too often disregarded by mainstream publications and the general public. At the end of each section, the editors provide questions for reflection. Aimed at general readers and especially American Indian women themselves, this book celebrates the voices of those in native communities in the US Southeast, a region rarely covered in other publications. The editors, with deep roots in the scholarship and culture of Indian women, have collected original stories, narratives, and poems. Featured prominently is the Lumbee Indian community, where two of the editors (one of them active in the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina) teach at the nearby University of North Carolina at Pembroke College, a center for scholarship about the Lumbee people. Traditional American Indian culture places high value on teaching and passing down knowledge through story and oral history, and this volume honors that tradition with the written narratives and poetry of a variety of Native women. Through this work, provided by professional and everyday writers, readers learn about the societies that have raised girls from an early age to be independent and competent leaders, to access traditional Native spirituality despite religious oppression, and to fight for justice for themselves and Native peoples across the nation in the face of legal and societal oppression. Included in this volume is Annette Saunooke Clapsaddle who documents the work of Cherokee linguist Marie Junaluska"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: pt. One Make Yourself Useful, Child

Introduction / Cherry Maynor Beasley

My Questions for Creator Madison York

You Can Help Others Do More Than You Did / Ruth Revels

A Firm Foundation to Withstand the Storms of Life / Mary Ann Elliott

Mary Alice, Play for Us / Mary Alice Pinchbeck Teets

Connecting Memory to a New Reality: An Interview with Cherokee Elder Marie Junaluska / Annette Saunooke Clapsaddle

To Be a Part of It / Barbara Locklear

Our People Are Moving in a Positive Direction / Mardella Sunshine Constanzo Richardson

Native American / Olivia Brown

In Closing: Contemplating Words of Wisdom / Our Women Elders

pt. Two Spirit Medicine

Introduction / Ulrike Wiethaus

Some Indian / Women Marijo Moore

Spirit Medicine / Kim Pevia

Clan Mother / Daphine L. Strickland

Bruises of a Battered Woman / Christine Hewlin

Not Anymore / Nora Dial-Stanley

Farming Always Brings Us Home / Charlene Hunt

In Closing: Contemplating Words of Wisdom by Our Women Elders

pt. Three Getting Justice When There Was None

Introduction / Mary Ann Jacobs

Patchwork Images / Gayle Simmons Cushing

The Alcatraz Occupation and the Advent of Civil Rights and American Indian Nationalism / Ruth Dial Woods

"This is something I am really glad to participate in": Two Generations Reflect on the Black Lives Matter Movement / Mary Ann Jacobs

I Always Knew I Was Indian / Kay Oxendine

Uncle R. Never Killed Nobody That Didn't Deserve It / Mary Ann Jacobs

Knowledge Is Power / Rosa Winfree.

Notes:

Place of publication from publisher's website.

Includes bibliographical references.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.

Other Format:

Online version: Upon her shoulders

ISBN:

9781949467802

1949467805

OCLC:

1303566130