Medicine, Education, and the Arts in Contemporary Native America

Strong Women, Resilient Nations
Herausgeber: Trafzer, Clifford E.; Wixon, Amanda K.; Akers, Donna L.

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Produktbeschreibung

This book highlights indigenous American women throughout modern American history, countering past stereotypes by offering twenty original scholarly chapters featuring historical and biographical analyses of Native American women who excelled in education, health, medicine, and the arts.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Februar 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 521g
• ISBN-13: 9781666907025
• ISBN-10: 1666907022
• Artikelnr.: 63156947

Autorenporträt

Clifford E. Trazer is distinguished professor of history and Rupert Costo Chair in American Indian Affairs at the University of California, Riverside. Donna L. Akers (Choctaw) is professor at the University of Texas at Arlington. Amanda K. Wixon (Chickasaw) and is Ph.D. candidate in history at the University of California, Riverside.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Introduction
Chapter 1 American Artist, Pueblo Potter: Maria Antonia Montoya Martinez
(?-1980) by Emily Molesworth-Teipe
Chapter 2 A Bridge Between Worlds: Mourning Dove (c. 1888 - d. 1936) by
Amanda K. Wixon
Chapter 3 Premier Basket Artist: Elsie Comanche Allen (b. 1899 - d. 1990)
by Meranda Roberts
Chapter 4 Dancing Activist: Maria Tallchief (b. 1925 - d. 2013) by Michelle
Lorimer
Chapter 5 Native Woman, Native Voices: Paula Gunn Allen (b. 1939 - d. 2008)
by Hal Hoffman and Clifford E. Trafzer
Chapter 6 Poet Warrior: Joy Harjo (b. 1951-) by Christie Time Firtha
Chapter 7 Civil Justice: Louise Erdrich (b. 1954-) by Christie Time Firtha
Chapter 8 The Voice of a Generation: Indigenous Singer-Songwriter, Actor,
Activist and Icon, Buffy Sainte-Marie (b. 1941 -) by Kimberly Norris
Guererro
Chapter 9 A Woman of Vision: Vivienne Jake by Daisy Ocampo
Chapter 10 Mary Jim Chapman (Xínstanik): Preserving the Memory of Snake
River Country (c. 1910 - 2000) by Benjamin T. Jenkins
Chapter 11 Cultural Historian, Linguist and Ethnobotanist: Katherine Siva
Saubel (b. 1920 - d. 2011) by Lisa Riggan
Chapter 12 Community, Educational, and Cultural Activist: Lorene Sisquoc
(b. 1960) by Kevin Whalen
Chapter 13 Elizabeth Wanamaker Peratrovich: Desegregating the Last Frontier
(1911-1958) by Benjamin T. Jenkins
Chapter 14 Preserving Indigenous Cultures and Languages: Ofelia Zepeda (b.
1952) by Jordan Cohen
Chapter 15 Roberta Conner (Sisaawipam): Public Historian and Sustainability
Activist (b. by Benjamin T. Jenkins
Chapter 16 Public Health Reformer: Susan La Flesche (b. 1865 - d. 1915) by
Robert D. Miller
Chapter 17 Navajo Health Activist and Educator: Annie Dodge Wauneka (b.
1910- d. 1997) by Brendan Lindsay
Chapter 18 Activism through Medicine: Lori Alvord (b. 1958) by Jeffrey
Allen Smith
Chapter 19 Remembering What We Always Knew: Kahnawake Community-Based
Activist Terry Maresca, M.D. (b. 1958-) by Sarah Wolk FritzGerald
Chapter 20 Activist Centered Healthcare: Beverly Patchell (b. 1951) by
Robert D. Miller
About the Editors
About the Contributors