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Title Keeping the campfires going : Native women's activism in urban communities / edited by Susan Applegate Krouse and Heather A. Howard
Published Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, ©2009

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Description 1 online resource (xxv, 203 pages)
Series Book collections on Project MUSE
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 space in postworld 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
Summary The essays in this groundbreaking anthology, Keeping the Campfires Going, highlight the accomplishments of and challenges confronting Native women activists in American and Canadian cities. Since World War II, Indigenous women from many communities have stepped forward through organizations, in their families, or by themselves to take action on behalf of the growing number of Native people living in urban areas. This collection recounts and assesses the struggles, successes, and legacies of several of these women in cities across North America, from San Francisco to Toronto, Vancouver to Chica
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Indian women -- Political activity -- United States -- History -- 20th century
Indian women -- Political activity -- Canada -- 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
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Women's Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Ethnic Studies -- Native American Studies.
City and town life
Community life
Ethnic relations
Indian women -- Political activity
Women political activists
SUBJECT United States -- Ethnic relations -- History -- 20th century
Canada -- Ethnic relations -- History -- 20th century
Subject Canada
United States
Genre/Form Electronic books
History
Form Electronic book
Author Krouse, Susan Applegate, 1955-2010.
Howard-Bobiwash, Heather, 1966-
LC no. 2009004626
ISBN 9780803226456
0803226454
9786612423802
6612423803
Other Titles Native women's activism in urban communities