Sifters
Subtitle: Native American women's lives
By: edited by Theda Perdue.
Contributors: Perdue, Theda, 1949-
Series: Viewpoints on American culture
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 260
Subjects: Indian women -- North America -- Biography; Indian women -- North America -- History; Indian women -- North America -- Social life and customs
Genres: Biography.
Description: 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 Bureau of Indian Affairs in the 1990s, the essays span four centuries. Each one recounts the experiences of women from vastly different cultural traditions--the hunting and gathering of Kumeyaay culture of Delfina Cuero, the pueblo society of San Ildefonso potter Maria Martinez, and the powerful matrilineal kinship system of Molly Brant's Mohawks. Contributors focus on the ways in which different women have fashioned lives that remain firmly rooted in their identity as Native women. Perdue's introductory essay ties together the themes running through the biographical sketches, including the cultural factors that have shaped the lives of Native women, particularly economic contributions, kinship, and belief, and the ways in which historical events, especially in United States Indian policy, have engendered change.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Pocahontas : the hostage who became famous / Helen C. Rountree; title: Mary Musgrove : creating a new world / Michael D. Green; title: Molly Brant : from clan mother to Loyalist chief / James Taylor Carson; title: Sacagawea : the making of a myth / Donna Barbie; title: Catharine Brown : Cherokee convert to Christianity / Theda Perdue; title: Lozen : an Apache woman warrior / Laura Jane Moore; title: Mourning Dove : gender and cultural mediation / Dee Garceau; title: Gertrude Simmons Bonnin : for the Indian cause / P. Jane Hafen; title: Lucy Nicolar : the artful activism of a Penobscot performer / Bunny McBride; title: Maria Montoya Martinez : crafting a life, transforming a community / Terry R. Reynolds; title: Alice Lee Jemison : a modern "mother of the nation" / Laurence M. Hauptman; title: Delfina Cuero : a native woman's life in the borderlands / Phillip H. Round; title: Anna Mae Pictou-Aquash : an American Indian activist / Devon A. Mihesuah; title: Ada Deer : champion of tribal sovereignty / Nancy Oestreich Lurie.