Keeping the campfires going : native women's activism in urban communities
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Keeping the campfires going : native women's activism in urban communities
University of Nebraska Press, c2009
- : pbk
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
The essays in this groundbreaking anthology, Keeping the Campfires Going, highlight the accomplishments of and challenges confronting Native women activists in American and Canadian cities. Since World War II, Indigenous women from many communities have stepped forward through organizations, in their families, or by themselves to take action on behalf of the growing number of Native people living in urban areas. This collection recounts and assesses the struggles, successes, and legacies of several of these women in cities across North America, from San Francisco to Toronto, Vancouver to Chicago, and Seattle to Milwaukee. These wide-ranging and insightful essays illuminate Native communities in cities as well as the women activists working to build them.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Susan Applegate Krouse and Heather A. Howard
1. Urban Clan Mothers: Key Households in Cities Susan Lobo
2. Gender and Community Organization Leadership in the Chicago Indian Community
Anne Terry Straus and Debra Valentino
3. Indigenous Agendas and Activist Genders: Chicago's American Indian Center, Social Welfare, and Native American Women's Urban Leadership
Grant Arndt
4. "Assisting Our Own": Urban Migration, Self-Governance, and Native Women's Organizing in Thunder Bay, Ontario, 19721989
Nancy Janovicek 5. Their Spirits Live within Us: Aboriginal Women in Downtown Eastside Vancouver Emerging into Visibility
Dara Culhane
6. "How Will I Sew My Baskets?": Women Vendors, Market Art, and Incipient Political Activism in Anchorage, Alaska
Molly Lee
7. Women's Class Strategies as Activism in Native Community Building in Toronto, 19501975
Heather A. Howard
8. Creating Change, Reclaiming Space in PostWorld War II Seattle: The American Indian Women's Service League and the Seattle Indian Center, 19581978
Mary C. Wright 9. What Came Out of the Takeovers: Women's Activism and the Indian Community School of Milwaukee
Susan Applegate Krouse 10. Telling Paula Starr: Native American Woman as Urban Indian Icon
Joan Weibel-Orlando
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