Women

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Women of the Dawn

Alternate Title
[North American Indian Thought and Culture]
E-Books
Author/Creator
Bunny McBride
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Women Taking on Larger Role in Politics

Articles » General
Saskatchewan Indian, vol. 28, no. 2, summer, 1998, p. 13, 25
Description
First gathering of the Federation of Saskatchewan Indian Nations Women's Leadership Assembly held in Saskatoon in March.
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Women Wage War!

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Keith Howell
Saskatchewan Indian, vol. 10, no. 2-3, February/March 1980, pp. 2-3
Description
Presentation by Sadie Cote, President of the Saskatchewan Indian Women's Association, describing the effects of alcoholism on First Nations people and calling for recognition of women's input in Band affairs.
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Working With Water: Goulais Mission Memories

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Sheila F. Devlin
Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 22, no. 2, 2002, pp. 269-326
Description
Eight residents reflect on their lives in the community. Information was gathered through a series of conversational interviews.
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The Worldly Kenojuak

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Author/Creator
Leslie Boyd
Inuit Art Quarterly, vol. 27, no. 1, Kenojuak Ashevak, 1927-2013, Winter, 2014, pp. 8-15
Description
Comments on an artist who was awarded the Medal of Service of the Order of Canada by Governor General Roland Michener at the inaugural investiture. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 8.
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Writing (For) Survival: Continuity and Change in Four Contemporary Native American Women's Autobiographies

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
J. Browdy de Hernandez
Wicazo Sa Review, vol. 10, no. 2, Autumn, 1994, pp. 40-62
Description
Discusses The Ways of My Grandmothers by Beverly Wolf, Talking Indian: Reflections on Survival and Writing by Anna Lee Walters, Sáanii Dahataal/The Women Are Singing by Luci Tapahonso, and Storyteller by Leslie Marmon Silko.
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Writing Life

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Beth Brant
Journal of Lesbian Studies, vol. 4, no. 4, December 2000, pp. 21-34
Description
Beth Brant discusses the role of writing in her life and her relationships with loved ones.
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Writing the Talking Stick: Alphabetic Literacy as Colonial Technology and Postcolonial Appropriation

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Laura E. Donaldson
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 22, no. 1/2, Winter-Spring, 1998, pp. 46-62
Description
The author uses Out of the Depths, Isabel Knockwood’s autobiography about her time in Indian Residential School, to discuss English alphabet writing as a colonizing tool and as consider different ways that Indigenous peoples have appropriated English writing as a form of cultural survivance.
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Xweliqwiya: The Life of a Stó:lō Matriarch

Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Leslie Robertson
BC Studies, no. 186, Summer, 2015, pp. 156-157
Description
Book review of Xweliqwiya by Rena Point Bolton and Richard Daly. Entire book review section on one PDF. To access this review scroll to p. 156.
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Yaya’ and the Firbough: A Philosophy of Respect

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Shirley Sterling
Canadian Journal of Environmental Education, vol. 7, no. 1, Spring, 2002, pp. 43-53
Description
The Nlakapamux concept of respect is explored as lived by an Nlakapamux grandmother and transmitted through narratives about her.
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Zitkala-Ša and the Problem of Regionalism: Nations, Narratives, and Critical Traditions

Alternate Title
Zitkala-Sa and the Problem of Regionalism: Nations, Narratives, and Critical Traditions
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Gary Totten
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 29, no. 1/2, Winter/Spring, 2005, pp. 84-123
Description
Critical look at Gertrude Bonnin (1876-1938), a Yankton Sioux writer, his body of work and the idea of regionalism.
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