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"I am here. You will never be alone. We are dancing for you." So
begins Cutcha Risling Baldy's deeply personal account of the
revitalization of the women's coming-of-age ceremony for the Hoopa
Valley Tribe. At the end of the twentieth century, the tribe's
Flower Dance had not been fully practiced for decades. The women of
the tribe, recognizing the critical importance of the tradition,
undertook its revitalization using the memories of elders and
medicine women and details found in museum archives,
anthropological records, and oral histories. Deeply rooted in
Indigenous knowledge, Risling Baldy brings us the voices of people
transformed by cultural revitalization, including the accounts of
young women who have participated in the Flower Dance. Using a
framework of Native feminisms, she locates this revival within a
broad context of decolonizing praxis and considers how this
renaissance of women's coming-of-age ceremonies confounds
ethnographic depictions of Native women; challenges anthropological
theories about menstruation, gender, and coming-of-age; and
addresses gender inequality and gender violence within Native
communities.
"I am here. You will never be alone. We are dancing for you." So
begins Cutcha Risling Baldy's deeply personal account of the
revitalization of the women's coming-of-age ceremony for the Hoopa
Valley Tribe. At the end of the twentieth century, the tribe's
Flower Dance had not been fully practiced for decades. The women of
the tribe, recognizing the critical importance of the tradition,
undertook its revitalization using the memories of elders and
medicine women and details found in museum archives,
anthropological records, and oral histories. Deeply rooted in
Indigenous knowledge, Risling Baldy brings us the voices of people
transformed by cultural revitalization, including the accounts of
young women who have participated in the Flower Dance. Using a
framework of Native feminisms, she locates this revival within a
broad context of decolonizing praxis and considers how this
renaissance of women's coming-of-age ceremonies confounds
ethnographic depictions of Native women; challenges anthropological
theories about menstruation, gender, and coming-of-age; and
addresses gender inequality and gender violence within Native
communities.
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