Introduction: On her -- they beat time, a Flower Dance is held for her : revitalization of the Hupa women's coming-of-age ceremony. We do it, we did it, we are doing it -- Dining'xine:wh-mil-na:sa'a:n = Hupa people -- with them -- it stays, there is a Hupa tradition : oral narratives and native feminisms -- Ninis'a-na:ng'a' = The world -- Came to be lying there again, the world assumed its present position : California Indian history, genocide, and native women -- Wung-xowidilik = Concerning it -- what has been told : anthropology and salvage ethnography -- Tim-na'me = At the lucky spot she bathes : indiginous menstrual beliefs and the politics of taboo -- Xoq'it-ch'iswa:l = On her -- they beat time, a Flower Dance is held for her : revitalization of the Hupa women's coming-of-age ceremony.
Summary:
Cutcha Risling Baldy's deeply personal account of the revitalization of the women's coming-of-age ceremony for the Hoopa Valley Tribe--Provided by publisher.
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