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Keeping the campfires going : native women's activism in urban communities /

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Krouse, Susan Applegate, 1955-2010, Howard-Bobiwash, Heather, 1966-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2009]
Subjects:
Indian women > United States > Political activity > History > 20th century.
Indian women > Canada > Political activity > History > 20th century.
Women political activists > United States > History > 20th century.
Women political activists > Canada > History > 20th century.
Community life > United States > History > 20th century.
Community life > Canada > History > 20th century.
City and town life > United States > History > 20th century.
City and town life > Canada > History > 20th century.
United States > Ethnic relations > History > 20th century.
Canada > Ethnic relations > History > 20th century.
Table of Contents:
  • Urban clan mothers : key households in cities / Susan Lobo
  • Gender and community organization leadership in the Chicago Indian community / Anne Terry Straus and Debra Valentino
  • Indigenous agendas and activist genders : Chicago's American Indian center, social welfare, and Native American women's urban leadership / Grant Arndt
  • "Assisting our own" : urban migration, self-governance, and native women's organizing in Thunder Bay, Ontario, 1972-1989 / Nancy Janovicek
  • Their spirits live within us : aboriginal women in downtown eastside Vancouver emerging into visibility / Dara Culhane
  • "How will I sew my baskets?" : women vendors, market art, and incipient political activism in Anchorage, Alaska / Molly Lee
  • Women's class strategies as activism in native community building in Toronto, 1950-1975 / Heather A. Howard
  • Creating change, reclaiming Indian space in post-World War II Seattle : the American Indian women's service league and the Seattle Indian center, 1958-1978 / Mary C. Wright
  • What came out of the takeovers : women's activism and the Indian community school of Milwaukee / Susan Applegate Krouse
  • Telling Paula Starr : Native American woman as urban Indian icon / Joan Weibel-Orlando.