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Keeping the campfires going native women's activism in urban communities

Title
  1. Keeping the campfires going [electronic resource] : native women's activism in urban communities / edited by Susan Applegate Krouse and Heather A. Howard.
Published by
  1. Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, c2009.

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Details

Additional authors
  1. Krouse, Susan Applegate, 1955-
  2. Howard-Bobiwash, Heather, 1966-
Description
  1. 1 online resource (xxv, 203 p.)
Uniform title
  1. Keeping the campfires going (Online)
Subject
  1. Indian women -- Political activity -- History -- United States -- 20th century
  2. Indian women -- Political activity -- History -- Canada -- 20th century
  3. Women political activists -- United States -- History -- 20th century
  4. Women political activists -- Canada -- History -- 20th century
  5. Community life -- United States -- History -- 20th century
  6. Community life -- Canada -- History -- 20th century
  7. City and town life -- United States -- History -- 20th century
  8. City and town life -- Canada -- History -- 20th century
  9. United States -- Ethnic relations -- History -- 20th century
  10. Canada -- Ethnic relations -- History -- 20th century
Contents
  1. 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.
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Access (note)
  1. Access restricted to authorized users.
Title
  1. Keeping the campfires going [electronic resource] : native women's activism in urban communities / edited by Susan Applegate Krouse and Heather A. Howard.
Imprint
  1. Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, c2009.
Bibliography
  1. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Access
  1. Access restricted to authorized users.
Connect to:
  1. Available from home with a valid library card
  2. Available onsite at NYPL
Added author
  1. Krouse, Susan Applegate, 1955-
  2. Howard-Bobiwash, Heather, 1966-
LCCN
  1. 2009004626
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