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Medicine, Education, and the Arts in Contemporary Native America

Strong Women, Resilient Nations
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 2022

Summary

This book offers twenty original scholarly chapters featuring historical and biographical analyses of Native American women. The lives of women found her contributed significantly to their people and people everywhere. The book presents Native women of action and accomplishments in many areas of life. This work highlights women during the modern era of American history, countering past stereotypes of Native women. With the exceptions of Pocahontas and Sacajawea, historians have had little to say about American Indian women who have played key roles in the history of their tribes, their relationship with others, and the history of the United States. Indigenous women featured herein distinguished themselves as fiction and non-fiction writers, poets, potters, basket makers, musicians, and dancers. Other women contributed as notable educators and women working in health and medicine. They are representative of many women within the Native Universe who excelled in their lives to enrich the American experience.

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Bibliographic data

Copyright year
2022
ISBN-Print
978-1-6669-0702-5
ISBN-Online
978-1-6669-0703-2
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
212
Product type
Edited Book

Table of contents

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    1. Contents No access
    2. Preface No access
  1. Introduction No access Pages 1 - 12
  2. Ch01. American Artist, Pueblo Potter No access Pages 13 - 24
  3. Ch02. A Bridge between Worlds No access Pages 25 - 30
  4. Ch03. Premier Basket Artist No access Pages 31 - 36
  5. Ch04. Dancing Activist No access Pages 37 - 46
  6. Ch05. Native Woman, Native Voices No access Pages 47 - 54
  7. Ch06. Poet Warrior No access Pages 55 - 64
  8. Ch07. Civil Justice No access Pages 65 - 74
  9. Ch08. The Voice of a Generation No access Pages 75 - 82
  10. Ch09. A Woman of Vision No access Pages 83 - 96
  11. Ch10. Preserving the Memory of Snake River Country No access Pages 97 - 104
  12. Ch11. Cultural Historian, Linguist, and Ethnobotanist No access Pages 105 - 112
  13. Ch12. Community, Educational, and Cultural Activist No access Pages 113 - 122
  14. Ch13. Desegregating the Last Frontier No access Pages 123 - 128
  15. Ch14. Preserving Indigenous Cultures and Languages No access Pages 129 - 134
  16. Ch15. Public Historian and Sustainability Activist No access Pages 135 - 142
  17. Ch16. Public Health Reformer No access Pages 143 - 152
  18. Ch17. Navajo Health Activist and Educator No access Pages 153 - 166
  19. Ch18. Activism through Medicine No access Pages 167 - 174
  20. Ch19. Remembering What We Always Knew No access Pages 175 - 182
  21. Ch20. Activist Centered Healthcare No access Pages 183 - 194
  22. Index No access Pages 195 - 206
  23. About the Editors No access Pages 207 - 208
  24. About the Contributors No access Pages 209 - 212

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