Recollecting : : Lives of Aboriginal Women of the Canadian Northwest and Borderlands / / edited by Sarah Carter, Patricia Alice McCormack.

• VerfasserIn: Carter, Sarah,; McCormack, Patricia Alice,
• TeilnehmendeR: McCormack, Patricia Alice,
• Place / Publishing House: Edmonton : : Athabasca University Press,, 2011.
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (422 pages)

"Recollecting is a rich collection of essays that illuminates the lives of late-eighteenth-century to mid-twentieth-century Aboriginal women, who have been overlooked in sweeping narratives of the history of the West. Some essays focus on individuals--a trader, a performer, a non-human woman. Other essays examine cohorts of women--wives, midwives, seamstresses, nuns. Authors look beyond the documentary record and standard representations of women, drawing on records generated by the women themselves, including their beadwork, other material culture, and oral histories. Exploring the constraints and boundaries these women encountered, the authors engage with difficult and important questions of gender, race, and identity. Collectively these essays demonstrate the complexity of "contact zone" interactions, and they enrich and challenge dominant narratives about histories of the Canadian Northwest."--Publisher's description.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Lifelines: Searching for Aboriginal Women of the Northwest and Borderlands / Sarah Carter and Patricia A. McCormack Part 1: Transatlantic Connections1 Recovered Identities: Four Métis Artists in Nineteenth-Century Rupert's Land / Susan Berry2 Lost Women: Native Wives in Orkney and Lewis / Patricia A. McCormack3 Christina Massan's Beadwork and the Recovery of a Fur Trade Family History / Alison K. Brown, with Christina Massan & Alison GrantPart 2: Cultural Mediators4 Repositioning the Missionary: Sara Riel, the Grey Nuns, and Aboriginal Women in Catholic Missions of the Northwest / Lesley Erickson5 The "Accomplished" Odille Quintal Morison: Tsimshian Cultural Intermediary of Metlakatla, British Columbia / Maureen L. Atkinson6 Obscured Obstetrics: Indigenous Midwives in Western Canada / Kristin BurnettPart 3: In the Borderlands7 Sophie Morigeau: Free Trader, Free Woman / Jean Barman8 The Montana Memories of Emma Minesinger: Windows on the Family, Work, and Boundary Culture of a Borderlands Woman / Sarah CarterPart 4: The Spirit World9 Searching for Catherine Auger: The Forgotten Wife of the Wîhtikôw (Windigo) / Nathan D. Carlson10 Pakwâciskwew: A Reacquaintance with Wilderness Woman / Susan Elaine Gray Part 5: Challenging and Crafting Representations 11 Frances Nickawa: "A Gifted Interpreter of the Poetry of Her Race" / Jennifer S.H. Brown12 Blazing Her Own Trail: Anahareo's Rejection of Euro-Canadian Stereotypes / Kristin L. Gleeson Notes List of Contributors Index.