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• Title:Sifters : Native American women's lives / edited by Theda Perdue.
  
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• Other Contributors/Collections:Perdue, Theda, 1949- editor.
  Xwi7xwa Collection
  
• Published/Created:New York : Oxford University Press, 2001.
  

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  • Location:XWI7XWA LIBRARY stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: PW P57 S54 2001
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• FNHL (Xwi7xwa) Subjects:Indigenous Peoples--Women
  Indigenous Peoples--Women--History.
  
• Library of Congress Subjects: Indian women--North America
  Indian women--North America--History.
  Indian women--North America--Social life and customs.
  
• Genre/Form:Biographies
  
• Description:xii, 260 pages ; 24 cm
  
• Series:Viewpoints on American culture.
  
• Summary:"In Sifters, Theda Perdue has assembled a rich collection of new biographical essays on Native American women. From Pocahontas, a Powhatan woman of the seventeenth century, to Ada Deer, the Menominee woman who headed the Bureau of Indian Affairs in the 1990s, the essays span four centuries."--back cover.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-247) and index.
  
• ISBN:0195130804 (alk. paper)
  9780195130805 (alk. paper)
  0195130812 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  9780195130812 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  
• Contents:Pocahontas : the hostage who became famous / Helen C. Rountree
  Mary Musgrove : creating a new world / Michael D. Green
  Molly Brant : from clan mother to Loyalist chief / James Taylor Carson
  Sacagawea : the making of a myth / Donna Barbie
  Catharine Brown : Cherokee convert to Christianity / Theda Perdue
  Lozen : an Apache woman warrior / Laura Jane Moore
  Mourning Dove : gender and cultural mediation / Dee Garceau
  Gertrude Simmons Bonnin : for the Indian cause / P. Jane Hafen
  Lucy Nicolar : the artful activism of a Penobscot performer / Bunny McBride
  Maria Montoya Martinez : crafting a life, transforming a community / Terry R. Reynolds
  Alice Lee Jemison : a modern "mother of the nation" / Laurence M. Hauptman
  Delfina Cuero : a native woman's life in the borderlands / Phillip H. Round
  Anna Mae Pictou-Aquash : an American Indian activist / Devon A. Mihesuah
  Ada Deer : champion of tribal sovereignty / Nancy Oestreich Lurie.