Nancy Shoemaker (ed.)

Negotiators of Change

Historical Perspectives on Native American Women
Herausgeber: Shoemaker, Nancy

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Produktbeschreibung

"Negotiators of Change is one of the most original and innovative volumes to explore the terrain of Native American women's history. The essays included span the period between the seventeenth century and the present, focusing on the significance of gender in Native American and Euro-American interactions. The contributors present new historical sources, methods and interpretations that enhance our understanding of Indian women's reactions to the changes introduced by Euro-American contact and conquest. "Negotiators of Change covers the history of ten tribal groups including the Cherokee, Iroquois and Navajo as well as tribes with less known histories such as the Yakima, Ute, and Pima-Maricopa. The book contests the idea that European colonization let to a loss of Native American women's power, and instead presents a more complex picture of the zdaptation to, and subversion of the economic changes introduced by Europeans. The essays also discuss the changing meanings of motherhood, women'sroles, and differing gender ideologies within this context. Contributors: Helen M. Bannan, Kathleen Brown, Paivi Hoikkala, Harry A. Kersey, Jr., Clara Sue Kidwell, Lucy Murphy, Katherine M.B. Osburn, Theda Perdue, Nancy Shoemaker, Carol Sparks, Clifford E. Trafzer

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 242
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Januar 1995
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 158mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 567g
• ISBN-13: 9780415909921
• ISBN-10: 0415909929
• Artikelnr.: 21152238

Autorenporträt

Nancy Shoemaker has taught history at St. Lawrence University and Texas Christian University. During the spring of 1994, she was a Monticello College Foundation Fellow at the Newbury Library in Chicago, Illinois.

Inhaltsangabe

1. The Anglo-Algonquian Gender Frontier Kathleen M. Brown; 2. Kateri
Tekakwitha's Tortuous Path to Sainthood Nancy Shoemaker; 3. Autonomy and
the Economic Roles of Indian Women of the Fox-Wisconsin Riverway Region,
1763-1832 Lucy Eldersveld Murphy; 4. Women, Men and American Indian Policy:
The Cherokee Response to Civilization Theda Perdue; 5. Choctaw Women and
Cultural Persistence in Misissippi Clara Sue Kidwell; 6. The Land
Incarnate: Navajo Women and the Dialogue of Colonialism, 1821-1870 Carol
Douglas Sparks; 7. Dear Friend and Ex-Husband: Marriage, Divorce, and
Women's Property Rights on the Southern Ute Reservation, 1887-1930
Katherine M.B. Osburn; 8. Horses and Cattle, Buggies and Hacks: Purchases
by Yakima Indian Women, 1909-1912 Clifford E. Trafzer; 9. Patchwork and
Politics: The Evolving Roles of Florida Seminole Women in the Twntieth
Century Harry A. Kersey, Jr. and Helen M. Bannan; 10. Mothers and Community
Builders: Salt River Pima and Maricopa Women in Community Action Paivi H.
Hoikkala.