We are dancing for you : native feminisms and the revitalization of women's coming-of-age ceremonies /

Cutcha Risling Baldy's deeply personal account of the revitalization of the women's coming-of-age ceremony for the Hoopa Valley Tribe--Provided by publisher.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Risling Baldy, Cutcha (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Seattle : University of Washington Press, [2018]
Series:	Indigenous confluences.
Subjects:	Hupa women > Rites and ceremonies. Hupa women > Social life and customs. Hupa women > Social conditions. Feminism. Hoopa Valley Tribe, California.

Table of Contents:

Introduction: 'A:diniw A'ydyaw 'A:dit'e:n = We do it, we did it, we are doing it
Dining'xine:wh-mil-na:sa'a:n = Hupa people
with them
it stays, there is a Hupa tradition : oral narratives and native feminisms
Ninis'a-na:ng'a' = The world
Came to be lying there again, the world assumed its present position : California Indian history, genocide, and native women
Wung-xowidilik = Concerning it
what has been told : anthropology and salvage ethnography
Tim-na'me = At the lucky spot she bathes : indiginous menstrual beliefs and the politics of taboo
Xoq'it-ch'iswa:l = On her
they beat time, a Flower Dance is held for her : revitalization of the Hupa women's coming-of-age ceremony.