Sifters : Native American women's lives /

In this edited volume, Theda Perdue, a nationally known expert on Indian history and southern women's history, offers a rich collection of biographical essays on Native American women. From Pocahontas, a Powhatan woman of the seventeenth century, to Ada Deer, the Menominee woman who headed the...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Perdue, Theda, 1949-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, ©2001.
Colección:Viewpoints on American culture.
Temas:
Indian women > North America > Biography.
Indian women > North America > History.
Indian women > North America > Social life and customs.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Ethnic Studies > Native American Studies.
Indian women
Indian women > Social life and customs
North America
Biographies
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Pocahontas : the hostage who became famous / Helen C. Rountree
  • Mary Musgrove : creating a new world / Michael D. Green
  • Molly Brant : from clan mother to Loyalist chief / James Taylor Carson
  • Sacagawea : the making of a myth / Donna Barbie
  • Catharine Brown : Cherokee convert to Christianity / Theda Perdue
  • Lozen : an Apache woman warrior / Laura Jane Moore
  • Mourning Dove : gender and cultural mediation / Dee Garceau
  • Gertrude Simmons Bonnin : for the Indian cause / P. Jane Hafen
  • Lucy Nicolar : the artful activism of a Penobscot performer / Bunny McBride
  • Maria Montoya Martinez : crafting a life, transforming a community / Terry R. Reynolds
  • Alice Lee Jemison : a modern "mother of the nation" / Laurence M. Hauptman
  • Delfina Cuero : a native woman's life in the borderlands / Phillip H. Round
  • Anna Mae Pictou-Aquash : an American Indian activist / Devon A. Mihesuah
  • Ada Deer : champion of tribal sovereignty / Nancy Oestreich Lurie.

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