Keeping the Campfires Going (eBook, PDF)

Native Women's Activism in Urban Communities
Redaktion: Krouse, Susan Applegate; Howard-Bobiwash, Heather A.

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Produktbeschreibung

The essays in this groundbreaking anthology, Keeping the Campfires Going, highlight the accomplishments of and challenges confronting Native women activists in American and Canadian cities. Since World War II, Indigenous women from many communities have stepped forward through organizations, in their families, or by themselves to take action on behalf of the growing number of Native people living in urban areas. This collection recounts and assesses the struggles, successes, and legacies of several of these women in cities across North America, from San Francisco to Toronto, Vancouver to Chicago, and Seattle to Milwaukee. These wide-ranging and insightful essays illuminate Native communities in cities as well as the women activists working to build them.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Nebraska Paperback
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Oktober 2009
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780803226456
• Artikelnr.: 55972660

Autorenporträt

Susan Applegate Krouse (1955-2010) was an associate professor of anthropology and the director of the American Indian studies program at Michigan State University. She is the author of North American Indians in the Great War (Nebraska 2007).   Heather A. Howard holds a research faculty appointment with the Centre for Aboriginal Initiatives at the University of Toronto and is an adjunct assistant professor of anthropology at Michigan State University. She is the coeditor of The Meeting Place: Aboriginal Life in Toronto and Feminist Fields: Ethnographic Insights.   Contributors: Grant Arndt, Dara Culhane, Heather A. Howard, Nancy Janovicek, Susan Applegate Krouse, Molly Lee, Susan Lobo, Joan Weibel-Orlando, Anne Terry Straus, Debra Valentino, and Mary C. Wright.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments  
Introduction     
Susan Applegate Krouse and Heather A. Howard
1. Urban Clan Mothers: Key Households in Cities
Susan Lobo
2. Gender and Community Organization Leadership in the Chicago Indian
Community    
Anne Terry Straus and Debra Valentino
3. Indigenous Agendas and Activist Genders: Chicago's American Indian
Center, Social Welfare, and Native American Women's Urban Leadership   
Grant Arndt
4. "Assisting Our Own": Urban Migration, Self-Governance, and Native
Women's Organizing in Thunder Bay, Ontario, 19721989 
Nancy Janovicek
5. Their Spirits Live within Us: Aboriginal Women in Downtown Eastside
Vancouver Emerging into Visibility  
Dara Culhane
6. "How Will I Sew My Baskets?": Women Vendors, Market Art, and Incipient
Political Activism in Anchorage, Alaska   
Molly Lee
7. Women's Class Strategies as Activism in Native Community Building in
Toronto, 19501975     
Heather A. Howard
8. Creating Change, Reclaiming Space in PostWorld War II Seattle: The
American Indian Women's Service League and the Seattle Indian Center, 1958
1978     
Mary C. Wright
9. What Came Out of the Takeovers: Women's Activism and the Indian
Community School of Milwaukee  
Susan Applegate Krouse
10. Telling Paula Starr: Native American Woman as Urban Indian Icon    
Joan Weibel-Orlando
Contributors     
Index