Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 30, no. 3-4, Fall-Winter, 2018, pp. 54-71
Description
Describes Miranda’s tribal memoir as an act of resistance which disrupts archival and mainstream narratives around Indigenous nations, dispossession, and human-land relationships. Focuses of female voices and perspectives, and on narrative sovereignty.
Canadian Journal of Women and the Law, vol. 2, no. 1, Racism ... Talking Out, 1986, pp. 159-170
Description
Discussion of the author's experiences involving racism while obtaining legal education. Also includes commentary regarding racism and disadvantage theories as well as coping strategies.
Aboriginal & Islander Health Worker Journal, vol. 30, no. 4, July/August 2006, pp. 12-15
Description
Brief excerpt from, In Our Own Right, Black Australian Nurses' Stories edited by Sally Oam and Kerrynne Liddle about the challenges of being Aboriginal and rising to a nurse educator.
The Kootenai Female Berdache: Courier, Guide, Prophetess and Warrior
The Kootenay Female Berdache: Courier, Guide, Prophetess and Warrior
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Claude E. Schaeffer
Ethnohistory, vol. 12, no. 3, Summer, 1965, pp. 193-236
Description
Ququonok Patke, a famous 19th century female berdache, whose role included mediation between the Flathead and Blackfoot peoples, was also recognized as a courier, warrior and guide.
Aboriginal and Islander Health Worker Journal, vol. 27, no. 6, November-December 2003, pp. 8-9
Description
Chronicles the efforts of a local activist who spent decades campaigning for the return of Wybalenna to her people where they were forcibly resettled to in 1834.
Aboriginal & Islander Health Worker Journal, vol. 30, no. 5, September/October 2006, pp. 22-28
Description
Biographical article of Nancy De Vries, a registered nurse who was removed from her mother and raised in a white family environment.
Extracted from The Lost Children edited by Coral Edwards and Peter Read.
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 30, no. 1, Spring, 2018, pp. 50-70
Description
Draws on Tallchief’s autobiography and examines the role that she, using her cultural influence to exert her agency, played in complicating the colonial princess – squaw dichotomy imposed on Indigenous women in the United States.