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Book SynopsisHow can we learn more about Native women's lives in North America in earlier centuries? This is a guide to the significance, experiences, and histories of Native women. It features essays that describe a range of research methods and sources offering insight into the lives of Native American women.
Table of ContentsIntroduction: “Searching for Cornfields – and Sugar Groves” by Rebecca Kugel (University of California, Riverside) and Lucy Eldersveld Murphy (Ohio State University, Newark)
Section I: Theory
What Native Women Were NOT
1. Rayna Green (National Museum of American History), “The Pocahontas Perplex”
2. David D. Smits (College of New Jersey), “The ‘Squaw Drudge’: A Prime Index of Savagism,” Excerpt
What Native Women WERE
3. Clara Sue Kidwell (University of Oklahoma), “Indian Women as Cultural Mediators”
4. Jennifer S. H. Brown (University of Winnipeg, Manitoba), “Woman as Centre and Symbol in the Emergence of Métis Communities”
Equality and Feminism
5. Eleanor Leacock (Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute and City University of New York), “Women’s Status in Egalitarian Society: Implications for Social Evolution,” Excerpt
6. Kathryn Shanley (University of Montana), “Blood Ties and Blasphemy: American Indian Women and the Problem of History,” Excerpt
Section II: Method
Biography
7. Helen Tanner (Newberry Library, Chicago), “Coocoochee: Mohawk Medicine Woman”
8. Rebecca Kugel (University of California, Roverside), “Leadership within the Women’s Community: Susie Bonga Wright of the Leech Lake Ojibwe”
Central Theme: The Kinship of Religious Affiliation
9. Carl Ekberg (Illinois State University), with Anton J. Pregaldin, “Marie Rouensa-8canic8e and the Foundations of French Illinois” 0in 0pt 1.25in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.25in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list 1.25in"10. Susan Sleeper-Smith (Michigan State University), “Women, Kin, and Catholicism: New Perspectives on the Fur Trade”
Central Question: Did Native Women Loose Power After Colonization?
11. Theda Perdue (University of North Carolina), “Cherokee Women and the Trail of Tears”
12. Nancy Shoemaker (University of Connecticut), “The Rise or Fall of Iroquois Women”
Using Gender as a Tool of Analysis: Economics
13. Jean M. O’Brien (University of Minnesota), “Divorced from the Land: Resistance and Survival of Indian Women in Eighteenth Century New England”
14. Lucy Eldersveld Murphy (Ohio State University, Newark), “To Live Among Us: Accommodation, Gender, and Conflict in the Western Great Lakes Region, 1760-1832”
Oral History
15. Nancy Lurie, ed.,
Mountain Wolf Woman: Sister of Crashing Thunder, Excerpts
16. Michelene E. Pesantubbee (University of Iowa), “Beyond Domesticity: Choctaw Women Negotiating the Tension Between Choctaw Culture and Protestantism”
