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Recollecting : lives of Aboriginal women of the Canadian northwest and borderlands
Title
Recollecting : lives of Aboriginal women of the Canadian northwest and borderlands / edited by Sarah Carter and Patricia A. McCormack.
ISBN
9781897425824
1897425821
Published
Edmonton : AU Press, c2011.
Physical Description
ix, 422 p. : ill. (some col.), facsims., maps, ports. ; 25 cm.
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Also available in electronic format.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
March 07, 2011
Series
The West unbound,
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Pt. 1. Transatlantic connections. Recovered identities : four Metis 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 & Alison Grant.
Pt. 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.
Pt. 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.
Pt. 4. The spirit world. Searching for Catherine Auger : the forgotten wife of the Wihtikow (Windigo) / Nathan D. Carlson
Pakwaciskwew : a reacquaintance with Wilderness Woman / Susan Elaine Gray.
Pt. 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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