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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.

Publisher:

University of Nebraska Press,

Copyright Date:

c2009

Description:

xxv, 203 p. ; 22 cm.

Subject:

Indian women--History--United States--History--20th century.
Indian women--History--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.
United States--History--History--20th century.
Canada--History--History--20th century.

Other Authors:

Krouse, Susan Applegate, 1955-
Howard-Bobiwash, Heather, 1966-

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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 Indian space in post-World 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.

ISBN:

0803220502 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780803220508 (pbk. : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)308979917

LCCN:

2009004626

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)