Holding Our World Together
Ojibwe Women and the Survival of Community
- Paperback
240 pages
- Release Date
29 January 2013
Summary
A groundbreaking exploration of the remarkable women in Native American communities.
In this well-researched and deeply felt account, Brenda J. Child, a professor and a member of the Red Lake Ojibwe tribe, gives Native American women their due, detailing the many ways in which they have shaped Native American life. She illuminates the lives of women such as Madeleine Cadotte, who became a powerful mediator between her people and European fur traders, and Gertrude Buckanaga, whose post…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780143121596 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0143121596 |
| Author: | Brenda J. Child, Colin G. Calloway |
| Publisher: | Penguin Putnam Inc |
| Imprint: | Penguin USA |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 240 |
| Release Date: | 29 January 2013 |
| Weight: | 170g |
| Dimensions: | 17mm x 129mm x 178mm |
| Series: | Penguin Library of American Indian History (Paperback) |
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Critics Review
“Brenda Child’s moving portrayal of the often unrecognized but pivotal roles Ojibwe women played in community survival is, in its determination to record truth, itself an act of leadership–of intellectual sovereignty.” — Kimberly Blaeser, author of Apprenticed to Justice
“An important, pathbreaking book, not merely a powerful corrective to books that focus on Indian males, but also a powerful corrective to the scholarship on Indian women largely written by non-Indian women.”
— Jacqueline Peterson, Washington State University-Vancouver
“Not only does [Child] describe how and why Ojibwe women were essential to the survival of their culture and community, through her scholarship she demonstrates how this work is being accomplished today.” — John Borrows, University of Minnesota
Brenda J. Child
Brenda J. Child is an associate professor of American studies at the University of Minnesota and the author of Boarding School Seasons: American Indian Families: 1900-1940. She lives in Saint Paul, Minnesota.
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