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

This book offers twenty original scholarly chapters featuring historical and biographical analyses of Native American women. The lives of women found her contributed significantly to their people and people everywhere. The book presents Native women of action and accomplishments in many areas of life. This work highlights women during the modern era of American history, countering past stereotypes of Native women. With the exceptions of Pocahontas and Sacajawea, historians have had little to say about American Indian women who have played key roles in the history of their tribes, their relationship with others, and the history of the United States. Indigenous women featured herein distinguished themselves as fiction and non-fiction writers, poets, potters, basket makers, musicians, and dancers. Other women contributed as notable educators and women working in health and medicine. They are representative of many women within the Native Universe who excelled in their lives to enrich the American experience.

General

Imprint:	Lexington Books-Fortress Academic
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	February 2022
Editors:	Clifford E. Trafzer • Donna L. Akers • Amanda K Wixon
Contributors:	Emily Molesworth-Teipe • Amanda K Wixon • Meranda Roberts • Michelle Lorimer • Hal Hoffman • Clifford E. Trafzer • Christie Time Firtha
Dimensions:	227 x 160 x 23mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	224
ISBN-13:	978-1-66690-702-5
Categories:	Books > Humanities > History > American history > General Books > Humanities > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Ethnic studies > Indigenous peoples Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Gender studies > Women's studies > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Anthropology > Social & cultural anthropology > General Books > History > American history > General Books > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history
LSN:	1-66690-702-2
Barcode:	9781666907025

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