From Princess to Chief - Life With the Waccamaw Siouan Indians of North Carolina

Informationen zum Autor Priscilla Freeman Jacobs is a pastor, great-grandmother, grandmother, mother, and wife. She lives with her family in North Carolina. Patricia Barker Lerch received a PhD from the Ohio State University in 1978. Lerch is a professor of cultural anthropology at the University of North Carolina-Wilmington. She is the author of several books, including Waccamaw Legacy: Contemporary Indians Fight for Survival , and many articles. Klappentext A collaborative life history of Priscilla Freeman Jacobs, From Princess to Chief tells the story of the first female chief (from 1986 to 2005) of the state-recognized Waccamaw Siouan Indian Tribe of North Carolina. Zusammenfassung A collaborative life history of Priscilla Freeman Jacobs! From Princess to Chief tells the story of the first female chief (from 1986 to 2005) of the state-recognised Waccamaw Siouan Indian Tribe of North Carolina. It details Jacobs' birth and childhood! coming of age! education! young adulthood! marriage and family! Indian activism! and spiritual life.

Product details

• Authors: Priscilla Freeman Jacobs, Patricia Barker Lerch, Patricia Barker/ Jacobs Lerch
• Publisher: The University of Alabama Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 10.08.2013
• EAN: 9780817317973
• ISBN: 978-0-8173-1797-3
• No. of pages: 136
• Series: Contemporary American Indian S; Contemporary American Indian S
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Ethnology