We are dancing for you
Subtitle: native feminisms and the revitalization of women's coming-of-age ceremonies
By: Cutcha Risling Baldy
Series: Indigenous confluences; Indigenous confluences
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 193
ISBN-13: 9780295743431; 9780295743448
Subjects: Social conditions; Social life and customs; Hupa women; Rites and ceremonies; Feminism
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction:; title: 'A:diniw A'ydyaw 'A:dit'e:n =; title: We do it, we did it, we are doing it --; title: Dining'xine:wh-mil-na:sa'a:n =; title: Hupa people -- with them -- it stays, there is a Hupa tradition : oral narratives and native feminisms --; title: Ninis'a-na:ng'a' =; title: The world -- Came to be lying there again, the world assumed its present position : California Indian history, genocide, and native women --; title: Wung-xowidilik =; title: Concerning it -- what has been told : anthropology and salvage ethnography --; title: Tim-na'me =; title: At the lucky spot she bathes : indiginous menstrual beliefs and the politics of taboo --; title: Xoq'it-ch'iswa:l =; title: On her -- they beat time, a Flower Dance is held for her : revitalization of the Hupa women's coming-of-age ceremony.