Medicine, Education, and the Arts in Contemporary Native America: Strong Women, Resilient Nations

This book showcases the lives of Native American women who have made significant contributions to their communities and the world. It challenges stereotypes and presents women from the modern era of American history who have played key roles in their tribes, relationships with others, and the history of the United States. The women featured are diverse and include fiction and non-fiction writers, poets, potters, basket makers, musicians, and dancers, as well as educators and women working in health and medicine.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 224 pages
Publication date: 29 January 2024
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc

This book presents twenty original scholarly chapters featuring historical and biographical analyses of Native American women. The lives of these women have contributed significantly to their people and people everywhere. The book presents Native women of action and accomplishments in many areas of life, countering past stereotypes of Native women. With the exceptions of Pocahontas and Sacajawea, historians have had little to say about American Indian women who have played key roles in the history of their tribes, their relationship with others, and the history of the United States. Indigenous women featured herein distinguished themselves as fiction and non-fiction writers, poets, potters, basket makers, musicians, and dancers. Other women contributed as notable educators and women working in health and medicine. They are representative of many women within the Native Universe who excelled in their lives to enrich the American experience.

Weight: 349g
Dimension: 228 x 151 x 16 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781666907049