Black Elk and Flaming Rainbow: Personal Memories of the Lakota Holy Man and John Neihardt
Alternate Title
[North American Indian Thought and Culture]
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Author/Creator
Hilda Neihardt
Discusses a play, The Book of Jessica, that illustrates the struggle women have in understanding what being "a woman" means, including across the barriers of race, culture, privilege and age.
Accompanying Materials: Teacher's Guide; Learner's Text; Pacific Map; Navigation
Interview with the chair of the Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada's Aboriginal Health Issues Committee who helped create the Association of Aboriginal Midwifes and Aboriginal Midwifery Education Program.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article scroll to p.20.
Argues that the limitations of the medium or cultural materials and the offered resistance fuel the creative tension in the novel.