These nine essays blend documentary history, oral history, and
ethnographic observation to shed light on the complex world of
grandmothering in Native America. The cultural and emotional
resources of their ethnic traditions help grandmothers grapple with
the myriad social, economic, cultural, and political challenges
they faced in the late twentieth century. Indian grandmothers are
almost universally occupied with child care and child rearing at
some time, but such variables as lineal descent, clan membership,
kinship patterns, individual behavior, and cultural ideology change
the definition, role, and status of a grandmother from tribe to
tribe. Although late-twentieth-century society often impoverishes
and marginalizes them, many Indian grandmothers provide
grandchildren with social stability and a cultural link to native
indentity, history and wisdom. The contributors' case studies
explore grandmothering among Navajos, Puget Sound Salish, Tewas,
Hopis, Otoes, Choctaws, and Sioux. In addition to Marjorie
Schweitzer, volume contributors include Karen Ritts Benally, Ann
Lane Hedlund, Pamela Amoss, Bruce G. Miller, Sue-Ellen Jacobs,
Alice Schlegel, Joan Weibel-Orlando, and Pat McCabe. The royalties
from this book are donated to the Native American Scholarship Fund,
Inc., based in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
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