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Native women changing their worlds

Call Number

  • 305.48897 C9898 TEEN (CEN)

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Publication Information

Summertown, TN : 7th Generation Native Voices, [2021]

Physical Description

117 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Audience

Grades 7-9 7th Generation.

Summary

"Twelve biographies of Indigenous women who, as modern-day warriors, have infused their communities with strength and leadership. The women overcame unimaginable hardships--racial and gender discrimination, abuse, and extreme poverty--only to rise to great heights in the fields of politics, science, education, and community activism"--

Contents

  • Introduction
  • Ashley Callingbull Burnham: Enoch Cree Nation
  • Henrietta Mann, PhD: Southern Cheyenne
  • Ruth Anna Buffalo: Mandan, Hidatsa, and Arikara Nation
  • Elouise Pepion Cobell: Blackfeet
  • Loriene Roy, PhD: Anishinabe, White Earth Reservation
  • Sharice Lynette Davids: Ho-Chunk Nation
  • Robert Jamieson: Kanyen'kehà:ka, Six Nations of the Grand River Territory
  • Deb Haaland: Pueblo of Laguna
  • Elsie Marie Knott: Mississauga Ojibwe
  • Mary Golda Ross: Cherokee
  • Heather Dawn Thompson: Lakota, Cheyenne River Sioux
  • Emily Washines: Yakama Nation with Cree and Skokomish lineage.

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