Recollecting lives of Aboriginal women of the Canadian northwest and borderlands
Record details
- ISBN: 1926836324 (electronic bk.)
- ISBN: 9781926836324 (electronic bk.)
- ISBN: 189742583X (electronic bk.)
- ISBN: 9781897425831 (electronic bk.)
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (433 p.)
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electronic resource - Publisher: Edmonton : AU Press, c2011.
Content descriptions
General Note: | Publisher's Web site: http://www.aupress.ca. Multi-User. |
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Lifelines: Searching for Aboriginal Women of the Northwest and Borderlands / Sarah Carter and Patricia A. McCormack -- Part 1: Transatlantic Connections. Recovered Identities: Four Métis Artists in Nineteenth-Century Rupert's Land / Susan Berry -- Lost Women: Native Wives in Orkney and Lewis / Patricia A. McCormack -- Christina Massan's Beadwork and the Recovery of a Fur Trade Family History / Alison K. Brown, with Christina Massan and Alison Grant -- Part 2: Cultural Mediators. Repositioning the Missionary: Sara Riel, the Grey Nuns, and Aboriginal Women in Catholic Missions of the Northwest / Lesley Erickson -- The "Accomplished" Odille Quintal Morison: Tsimshian Cultural Intermediary of Metlakatla, British Columbia / Maureen L. Atkinson -- Obscured Obstetrics: Indigenous Midwives in Western Canada / Kristin Burnett -- Part 3: In the Borderlands. Sophie Morigeau: Free Trader, Free Woman / Jean Barman -- The Montana Memories of Emma Minesinger: Windows on the Family, Work, and Boundary Culture of a Borderlands Woman / Sarah Carter -- Part 4. The Spirit World. Searching for Catherine Auger: The Forgotten Wife of the Wîhtikôw (Windigo) / Nathan D. Carlson -- Pakwâciskwew: A Reacquaintance with Wilderness Woman / Susan Elaine Gray -- Part 5. Challenging and Crafting Representations. Frances Nickawa: "A Gifted Interpreter of the Poetry of Her Race" / Jennifer S.H. Brown -- Blazing Her Own Trail: Anahareo's Rejection of Euro-Canadian Stereotypes / Kristin L. Gleeson. |
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