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Book SynopsisWhether looking back to a troubled past or welcoming a hopeful future, the powerful voices of Indigenous women across North America resound in this book. In the same style as the best-selling Dreaming in Indian, #NotYourPrincess presents an eclectic collection of poems, essays, interviews, and art that combine to express the experience of being a Native woman. Stories of abuse, humiliation, and stereotyping are countered by the voices of passionate women making themselves heard and demanding change. Sometimes angry, often reflective, but always strong, the women in this book will give teen readers insight into the lives of women who, for so long, have been virtually invisible.
Table of ContentsOPENING POEM shawl of memory’s embrace by Clear Wind Blows Over The Moon (Cree, Innu-Montagnais, Dene, Metis) Section 1 – The Ties That Bind Us POEM Tear by Linda Hogan (Chickasaw) SHORT ESSAY Blankets of Shame by Maria Campbell (Metis) POEM two braids Rosanna Deerchild (Cree) ART Apsáalooke Feminist series By Wendy Red Star (Crow) SHORT ESSAY Native American Women — The Original Feminists By Nahanni Fontaine (Anishinaabe) ART The Side Dancer’s Gift Marika Echachis Swan (Tla-oqui-aht Nation) SPOKEN WORD Leaks by Leanne Simpson (Michi Saagiig Nishnaabeg) VISUAL SCRAPBOOK My Grandmother Sophia By Saige Mukash (Cree) Section 2 – It Could Have Been Me PROSE POEM Falling By Natanya Ann Pulley (Navajo) SPOKEN WORD When Angels Speak of Love Tanaya Winder (Southern Ute, Duckwater Shoshone, Pyramid Lake Palute ART Nitewake:non “the place where I come from” Melissa General (Mohawk/Oneida) POEM She is riding Joanne Arnott (Metis) ART On the Red Road By Dana Claxton (Hunkpapa Lakota) SPOKEN WORD The Things We Taught Our Daughters By Helen Knott (Dana Zaa /Cree) MEMOIR Freedom in the Fog By Zondra Roy (Cree/Dene/Metis) VISUAL SCRAPBOOK It Could Have Been Me By Patricia Stonefish (Lakota) Section 3: I Am Not Your Princess POEM A Conversation with a Massage Therapist By Francine Cunningham (Cree/ Metis) PHOTO SERIES The Invisible Indians By Shelby Lisk (Mohawk from Tyendinaga) SPOKEN WORD Grey Owl By Winona Linn (Meskwaki) ESSAY What’s there to take back? Tiffany Midge (Standing Rock Sioux) POEM Stereotype This Melanie Fey (Dine) ART Real NDNZ Pamela J. Peters (Navajo) VISUAL SCRAPBOOK I Am the Only American Indian By Cecelia Rose LaPointe (Ojibway/Metis) Section 4: Pathfinders POEM When I have a Daughter by Ntawnis Piapot (Piapot Cree Nation) PROFILE Defender of Mother Earth Teen Activist Anna Lee Rain Yellowhammer TWITTER COLLAGE Various GRAPHIC NOVEL Fala Elizabeth LaPensee (Metis) INTERVIEW Dr. Janet Smylie (Metis) PHOTO ESSAY Living Their Dreams — Native American Athletes SPOKEN WORD Etuaptmumk Rebecca Thomas (Miq’mak) VISUAL SCRAPBOOK Dear Past Self Isabelle Rilispipe CLOSING POEM Little Sister Tasha Spillet EXCERPT Include description of excerpt e.g. ‘Chapter 1’, Introduction, Foreword, etc.
