Native women's history in eastern North America before 1900 : a guide to research and writing

Kugel, Rebecca. (Added Author). Murphy, Lucy Eldersveld, 1953- (Added Author).

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ISBN: 0803278314 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN: 0803227795 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN: 9780803278318 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN: 9780803227798 (cloth : alk. paper)
Physical Description: xxxvi, 467 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm.
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Publisher: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, c2007.

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Introduction: Searching for Cornfields - and Sugar Groves / Rebecca Kugel and Lucy Eldersveld Murphy -- Sect. I. Theory -- 1. The Pocahontas Perplex: The Image of Indian Women in American Culture / Rayna Green -- 2. The "Squaw Drudge": A Prime Index of Savagism / David D. Smits -- 3. Indian Women as Cultural Mediators / Clara Sue Kidwell -- 4. Woman as Centre and Symbol in the Emergence of Metis Communities / Jennifer S. H. Brown -- 5. Women's Status in Egalitarian Society: Implications for Social Evolution / Eleanor Burke Leacock -- 6. Blood Ties and Blasphemy: American Indian Women and the Problem of History / Kathryn W. Shanley -- Sect. II. Method -- 7. Coocoochee: Mohawk Medicine Woman / Helen Hornbeck Tanner -- 8. Leadership within the Women's Community: Susie Bonga Wright of the Leech Lake Ojibwe / Rebecca Kugel -- 9. Marie Rouensa-8canic8e and the Foundations of French Illinois / Carl J. Ekberg -- 10. Women, Kin, and Catholicism: New Perspectives on the Fur Trade / Susan Sleeper-Smith -- 11. Cherokee Women and the Trail of Tears / Theda Perdue -- 12. The Rise or Fall of Iroquois Women / Nancy Shoemaker -- 13. "Divorced" from the Land: Resistance and Survival of Indian Women in Eighteenth-Century New England / Jean M. O'Brien -- 14. To Live among Us: Accommodation, Gender, and Conflict in the Western Great Lakes Region, 1760-1832 / Lucy Eldersveld Murphy -- 15. Mountain Wolf Woman, Sister of Crashing Thunder: The Autobiography of a Winnebago Indian / Edited by Nancy Oestreich Lurie -- 16. Beyond Domesticity: Choctaw Women Negotiating the Tension between Choctaw Culture and Protestantism / Michelene E. Pesantubbee.