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Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Description
When Loretta surrenders her young girls to the county and then disappears, she becomes one more missing Native woman in Indian Country's long devastating history of loss. But she is also a daughter of the Mozhay Point Reservation in northern Minnesota and the mother of Azure and Rain, ages 3 and 4, and her absence haunts all the lives she has touched--and all the stories they tell in this novel. In the Night of Memory returns to the fictional reservation...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
"Twelve biographies of Indigenous women who, as modern-day warriors, have infused their communities with strength and leadership. The women overcame unimaginable hardships--racial and gender discrimination, abuse, and extreme poverty--only to rise to great heights in the fields of politics, science, education, and community activism"--Provided by publisher.
Pub. Date
1993
Description
"This is the first book in which spiritual leaders among Native American women portray in their own words their ancestral knowledge, philosophies, and traditions. Steve Wall traveled across North America, visiting the Mohawk and the Hoh, the Chumash and the Seminole, the Tewa and the Ojibway, the Oneida and the Seneca, the Cowichan and the Northern Cheyenne. He talked at length with the women elders and their families as well as with the members of...
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Description
" On March 14, 1889, Susan La Flesche received her medical degree becoming the first Native American doctor in U.S. history. She earned her degree thirty-one years before women could vote and thirty-five years before Indians could become citizens in their own country. By age twenty-six, this fragile but indomitable Indian woman became the doctor to her tribe. Overnight, she acquired 1,244 patients scattered across 1,350 square miles of rolling countryside...
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Author
Pub. Date
1998.
Description
Omishto, a young Indian woman in Florida whose name means One Who Watches, witnesses her Aunt Ama kill a panther, an animal that is believed to be an ancestor of the Taiga people, and must work out her inner conflict between her mother's Western views and her aunt's traditional ways.
Author
Pub. Date
c1987
Description
"The myths and cosmologies of non-Western peoples are not just histories, relating the world as it once was, nor are they pseudo-histories, justifying the world as it has come to be. Instead, they are tools of struggle: ideologies both producing and produced by the effort to create society in someone's image. On them are written the memories and hopes of forgotten people, yearning for power over their - and others' - lives. Such is Irene Silverblatt's...
Author
Pub. Date
2017
Description
"Always running, always hiding -- that's Deborah Running Bear, who is as lifeless as the wooden Indian she portrays in a mall. She festers with bitterness from a betrayal by white girlfriends that led to her arrest and exile from the community that once embraced her. She's about to turn fifty, convinced it's too late to become whoever she was meant to be. But when her old friends find her online, she resolves to confront them, hoping to heal from...
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