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





