Medicine, Education, and the Arts in Contemporary Native America - Strong Women, Resilient Nations

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.

List of contents

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

About the author

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.Amanda K. Wixon (Chickasaw) and is Ph.D. candidate in history at the University of California, Riverside.

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Clifford E. Trafzer, Clifford E. Akers Trafzer
• Assisted by: Donna L. Akers (Editor), Akers Donna L. (Editor), Clifford E. Trafzer (Editor), Amanda K. Wixon (Editor)
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.03.2022
• EAN: 9781666907025
• ISBN: 978-1-66690-702-5
• No. of pages: 224
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; USA, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies, Social & cultural history, HISTORY / United States / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Social & cultural anthropology, Indigenous Peoples, United States of America, USA, Gender studies: women, History of the Americas, Gender studies: women & girls, Relating to Native American people, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Native American Studies, Arts;Education;Medicine;Native American;Sovereignty;Women