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Ojibwe Women and the Survival of Community
Ojibwe Women and the Survival of Community
By Brenda J. Child
Introduction by Colin G. Calloway
By Brenda J. Child
Introduction by Colin G. Calloway
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Category: Indigenous Peoples' History
Category: Indigenous Peoples' History
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Jan 29, 2013 | ISBN 9780143121596
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Feb 16, 2012 | ISBN 9781101560259
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About Holding Our World Together
A groundbreaking exploration of the remarkable women in Native American communities
In this well-researched and deeply felt account, Brenda J. Child, a professor and a member of the Red Lake Ojibwe tribe, gives Native American women their due, detailing the many ways in which they have shaped Native American life. She illuminates the lives of women such as Madeleine Cadotte, who became a powerful mediator between her people and European fur traders, and Gertrude Buckanaga, whose postwar community activism in Minneapolis helped bring many Indian families out of poverty. Moving from the early days of trade with Europeans through the reservation era and beyond, Child offers a powerful tribute to the courageous women who sustained Native American communities through the darkest challenges of the past three centuries.
About Holding Our World Together
A groundbreaking exploration of the remarkable women in Native American communities.
Too often ignored or underemphasized in favor of their male warrior counterparts, Native American women have played a more central role in guiding their nations than has ever been understood. Many Native communities were, in fact, organized around women’s labor, the sanctity of mothers, and the wisdom of female elders. In this well-researched and deeply felt account of the Ojibwe of Lake Superior and the Mississippi River, Brenda J. Child details the ways in which women have shaped Native American life from the days of early trade with Europeans through the reservation era and beyond.
The latest volume in the Penguin Library of American Indian History, Holding Our World Together illuminates the lives of women such as Madeleine Cadotte, who became a powerful mediator between her people and European fur traders, and Gertrude Buckanaga, whose postwar community activism in Minneapolis helped bring many Indian families out of poverty. Drawing on these stories and others, Child offers a powerful tribute to the many courageous women who sustained Native communities through the darkest challenges of the last three centuries.
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Category: Indigenous Peoples’ History
Paperback | $15.00
Published by Penguin Books
Jan 29, 2013 | 240 Pages | 5 x 7-1/8 | ISBN 9780143121596
Category: Indigenous Peoples’ History
Ebook | $8.99
Published by Penguin Books
Feb 16, 2012 | 240 Pages | ISBN 9781101560259
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Praise
"Brenda Child’s moving portrayal of the often unrecognized but pivotal roles Ojibwe women played in community survival is, in its determination to record truth, itself an act of leadership–of intellectual sovereignty." — Kimberly Blaeser, author of Apprenticed to Justice
"An important, pathbreaking book, not merely a powerful corrective to books that focus on Indian males, but also a powerful corrective to the scholarship on Indian women largely written by non-Indian women."
— Jacqueline Peterson, Washington State University-Vancouver
"Not only does [Child] describe how and why Ojibwe women were essential to the survival of their culture and community, through her scholarship she demonstrates how this work is being accomplished today." — John Borrows, University of Minnesota
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