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Title Their own frontier : women intellectuals re-visioning the American West / edited and with an introduction by Shirley A. Leckie and Nancy J. Parezo
Published Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, ©2008

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 395 pages) : illustrations
Series Women in the West
Women in the West.
Contents Annie Heloise Abel: groundbreaking historian, Suzanne Julin -- Angie Debo: from the old to the new western history, Shirley A. Leckie, Mari Sandoz: historian of the great plains, John R. Wunder -- Isabel T. Kelly: a life in the field, Catherine S. Fowler and Robert Van Kemper -- Marjorie Ferguson Lamber: including american indians and hispanic peoples in southwestern anthropology, Shelby Tisdale -- Alice Marriott: recording the lives of american indian women, Patricia Loughlin -- Ella Cara Deloria: telling the story of her people, Maria Eugenia Cotera -- Zitkala-Sa: a bridge between two worlds, Franci Washburn -- Dorothea Cross Leighton: Anthropologist and Activist, Nancy J. Parezo -- Ruth Murray Underhill : ethnohistorian and ethnographer for the native peoples, Catherin J Lavender and Nancy J. Parezo
Summary The ten women intellectuals showcased in this volume were pioneers in the writing of Indian-centered history, ethnology, and folklore that incorporated the insights, voices, and perspectives of American Indians. These authors not only produced significant works that are still useful to modern-day scholars; they also pioneered research methods and theoretical concepts that helped lay the foundation for the new scholarship on western history, American Indian studies, and ethnohistory. Noted scholars have provided individual biographies describing the struggles and contributions these foremothers
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
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Subject Women anthropologists -- West (U.S.) -- Biography
Women folklorists -- West (U.S.) -- Biography
Women authors -- Biography.
Women historians -- West (U.S.) -- Biography
Indians in literature.
Indians of North America -- Research -- West (U.S.)
Indians of North America -- Study and teaching -- West (U.S.)
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Social Scientists & Psychologists.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Regional Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- General.
Indians in literature
Indians of North America -- Research
Indians of North America -- Study and teaching
Women anthropologists
Women authors
Women folklorists
Women historians
Indianerbild
Historikerin
Anthropologin
West United States
USA -- Weststaaten
Genre/Form Biographies
Biographies.
Biographies.
Form Electronic book
Author Leckie, Shirley A., 1937-
Parezo, Nancy J.
ISBN 9780803222595
0803222599
1281734047
9781281734044
9786611734046
661173404X